Word: solids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...center of the solar system is a wild adventure. As a comet approaches the sun, its surface is warmed by the strengthening sunlight. Layer after layer, the ices turn into gas. Soon the nucleus is surrounded by a rapidly growing cloud, of gas and dust boiled out of the solid nucleus. This cloud, the comet's head, may be many thousands of miles in diameter. It is so transparent that stars show through it plainly...
...Sharps Harder Than Flats?" and "Places That Don't Sound Right and What to Do with Them." The magazine was highly thought of by music teachers, who relied on it for hints on technique and for its advertisements suggesting graduation gifts ("A Very Attractive Lyre Design Pin-10K. solid gold, $1.25"). It was loathed by the thousands of rebellious children who had to plunk through its monthly exercises...
...Crimson baseball team will meet Cornell tomorrow afternoon at 3 p.m. on Soldiers Field. The varsity will enter its first Ivy League contest with three straight, and solid, Greater Boston League victories and a rainy southern junket under its belt...
...huge Bear team spent practically the whole first half in Crimson territory, and only tremendous punting by Alan Waddell, Jim Joslin and Jim Damis, behind solid tackling by the rest of the team, kept the game scoreless. Cal lost two men for brief periods with injuries, while the Crimson remained unscathed...
Garrels, who has been a member of the University faculty since 1955, previously headed the Solid State Group of the U.S. Geological Survey. He recently analyzed the movement of uranium deposits in the earth, and he is currently studying thermodynamic relations in geology...