Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...extra missionary stream comes from the smaller fighting sects rather than the old established churches. Example: the Seventh-day Adventists, with a membership of only 291,567 in the U.S., have the most missionaries of all-2,000 men and women, including missionaries from the U.S. and other home bases, in 184 countries. And the Christian and Missionary Alliance (membership: 87,663) has 822 missionaries abroad, or twice the number supported by the Protestant Episcopal Church (membership...
Near the rim of the earth's gravitational pit is a much smaller pit belonging to the moon. An object shot away from the earth at 24,800 m.p.h. will reach the boundary, about 34,000 miles short of the moon, where the moon's pull is as strong as the earth's. If it reaches this point with a small velocity, it will fall on the moon. If it crosses the line at good speed, it will shoot past the moon, its course merely deflected. This is what happened to the Lunik...
Solar Orbit. The earth and moon, whirling around each other, are not alone in space. They also orbit around the sun, and so do the other planets. A gravity chart of the solar system shows an enormously deep pit, the sun's, with much smaller pits in its slope, one for each planet. When a spaceship has climbed out of the earth's gravitational pit, it is still deep in the sun's pit. This does not mean that it will fall into the sun. Besides the comparatively small speed contributed by its own engine, it also...
...University of Chicago's Yerkes and McDonald observatories, thinks the moon was formed at the same time as the earth (5½ billion years ago), but at first it revolved only about 20,000 miles from the earth's surface. Beyond it were a lot of smaller satellites arranged in a disk somewhat like the rings of modern Saturn...
...nation's No. 1 and No. 2 roads, talked, thought and studied. Last week the Central flashed the red board. It announced that it was suspending the Pennsy merger talks until "three or four systems of nearly balanced economic strength in the East" could be studied. Conferences among smaller roads in Portland (Me.) and Cleveland (TIME, Dec. 1), said the Central's directors, indicate "a new climate among Eastern railroads in regard to merger." While studies of the Pennsy merger indicated that "savings are possible from both coordination of facilities and corporate merger," what the Central would like...