Word: roundish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good, considering the fantastic difficulty of getting them at all. To laymen, the moon's far side, long populated by storytellers with strange beasts and weird civilizations, looks disappointingly like its visible side. But astronomers find it surprisingly different. They point to the comparative lack of the big, roundish, dark "seas" that are so common on its known face. The area newly pictured shows only one really big sea, which the Russians named the Sea of Dreams. A smaller sea they named the Sea of Moscow, and to several craters they gave the names of Communist or Russian scientist...
...Bubbles. Dr. Schwarzschild realizes that only an astronomer can appreciate the full beauty of his photographs. They are covered with roundish bright spots, each of which is a bubble of hot gas 200-500 miles in diameter that has worked its way up from the sun's interior like a thunderhead. The charm of the pictures, says Schwarzschild, is their unprecedented sharpness...
...Rome leprosy congress was the brainchild of Frenchman Raoul Follereau, a professional charity worker who has devoted nearly half of his life to fighting the taboos associated with leprosy. Follereau, a roundish, energetic man of 52, has traveled 450,000 miles to visit leprosy victims, to convince them that their banishment from society is not condemnation to limbo, to encourage them to take treatments that can and will cure many...
...special kind of flying saucer, says Menzel, has been seen four times, just after the launching of a big "sky hook" balloon. They appear as roundish objects, apparently at a great height. He believes that they are caused by the balloon itself when it rises through a thin layer of warm air at a thousand feet or so (see diagram). As it rises, it punches a hole in the layer. Cold air flows in, forming a blob of denser air that acts as an imperfect lens. Observers on the ground see a small moving image of the balloon above...