Word: sheetings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Curved space is apparently understandable to Professor Howard P. Robertson, leading cosmologist who has come to Pasadena to look over Hubble's shoulder. Suppose, says Robertson, you draw two circles on a sheet of paper, one with a radius of one inch, the other with a radius of two inches. By high-school plane geometry, the second circle will have four times the area of the first...
...precepts on the desk near the window have been roughed up, there is normally a net gain. This is usually so, because good-will toward the aspirations of mankind is the most frequent hall-make of CRIMSON writers, and besides, it is more fun trying to run a good sheet than a mediocre...
...biggest snowfall of the winter left in its wake a sheet of glass that floored most students remaining in College and made driving nearly impossible for those who went home after exams...
...substantial blanket not only reflects the sun by day, but traps any heat extant in the earth and pavements, depriving the air of warmth. This imprisoned heat is constantly eating away at the bottom of the ice sheet, the Observatory notes, and streams, sewers, and gutters are swelling by the hour...
...hunt did not end in the legislative halls. On the lookout for Communist saboteurs, troops patrolled Rio suburbs and Santos docks. Light tanks guarded the great São Paulo electric plant. Hoje, São Paulo's violent Communist sheet, was worked over by police, and masked toughies who had caught the linotype-smashing fever took on the sensational but anti-Communist tabloid A Hora...