Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kudryavka (Little Curly), the first living creature to travel around the earth through space, first barked over the Moscow radio on Oct. 27. Dressed in a custom space suit, she had already ridden a short while before that in a rocket, and had suffered no ill effects. This week she made history as the passenger in Sputnik II-also called Muttnik...
...Experimenter in Holland will learn to ride a bicycle, if he doesn't know how, and will come to consider a 10-mile bike ride a short sprint. He will discover that the raincoat, and not wooden shoes, is the most essential article in the Dutch national costume...
...issue ended with a short question and answer bit, "Are you a Princeton man? No, I was kicked by a horse. Are you a Princeton man? No, the nurse dropped me. Are you a Princeton man? No, I've just done twenty years. Are you aPrinceton man? No, that was my wife...
...Oppenheimer writes in a recent director's report, "The Institute, in short, is devoted to learning, in the double sense of the continued education of the individual, and of the intellectual enterprise on which he is embarked...
...large, however, the community is a closed one. Members are carefully chosen on the basis of their work and are given funds with which they can spend a year at the Institute. With the new community of modernistic, utilitarian houses which have been recently completed and lie within a short walk of the Institute and its few seminars and office buildings, almost all members may live on the school's location...