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Word: solider (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...atmosphere and pointing in the right direction. But its speed will be only half the speed required (17,000 m.p.h.) to make the satellite stick safely to its orbit. Reaching orbital speed is the job of the third-stage rocket. The final rocket will be small and will use solid fuel, which requires no tricky pumps or valves. It will fire for 30-60 seconds, depending on how much accelera tion the delicate instruments in the satellite can take without damage. When the fuel is gone, the burned-out rocket will be on an orbit. Rosen figures that it will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Artificial Satellite | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

...solid front made up of HYDC, Law School, Wellesley College, Boston University, Framingham, and Springfield delegates provided six votes for the defeated proposals. But the opposition led by Bornstein put up seven votes even after some of the delegates had gone home...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Democrats Stir Dispute on Civil Rights | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

...year micro-record is a reminder that Americans were offered and bought some odd artifacts-crocodile sofas, mourning handkerchiefs, dog-powered butter churns, solid gold toothpicks with ear-spoon attached, mustache cups ("appropriate gift for the man of elegance") and bosom boards (wooden stiffeners used to shape men's shirts for ironing). In 1905, Sears was offering the "Princess Bust Developer," a bell-shaped cup attached firmly to a handle, and was telling women that IF NATURE HAS NOT FAVORED YOU, the developer would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Bosom Boards & Buggies | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

...short story writer, belongs to the white-mule team. Readers who can digest a sort of homily-grits style and who have a strong head for Southern discomfort will find that in his first novel the corn has not been squeezed in vain. Walk Through the Valley is a solid book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Homily Grits | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

...Solid Argument. In Los Angeles, Viola Fredieu sued Harold Hester to recover her 49 gallstones, which he was using in sales promotion to show prospective customers what might happen if they refused to buy his water-softening equipment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 9, 1956 | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

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