Word: somes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Who was behind such misfortune? Some Tangerines blamed the King's act on jealous Casablanca merchants. Others insisted it was a British plot to divert trade to Gibraltar, or a French plot to force Tangier into the franc zone. The explanation accepted by most Tangerines was simpler. To the...
A London auctioneer this week will hawk some love letters written by England's King George IV, most of them quilled to Maria Anne Fitzherbert, a widow six years his senior, who became his morganatic wife. Aside from their slushiness, the romantic epistles are historically interesting in graphically demonstrating...
For the last six years, the Army Quartermaster Corps has been boasting about steaks, eggs, and other perishable foods preserved by the glamorous atomic-age process of putting them in plastic envelopes and shooting gamma or beta rays through them. The foods looked fine, tasted pretty good, and they could...
Concern started soon after Richard S. Morse, the Army's civilian Director of Research and Development, took his job last June. None of the VIPs had suffered any ill effects; neither did human volunteers who ate the foods for short periods. But experimental animals put on a long-term...
What about the galaxies, which do not expand but merely move farther apart? Gold and Hoyle believe that great clouds of the hot cosmological gas radiate some of their heat away over the course of several billion years. As heat drops, each gas cloud cools and shrinks. At last, it...