Word: sphere
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before taking to this work ... I was in practice for about twelve years in Harley Street. Some of my patients might find it a little surprising to see me described as a psychiatric horse doctor. This work is completely outside the sphere of physical science, medical or veterinary...
...Circling Sphere. The Mouse will be a sphere, weighing 100 lbs. and packed with instruments, that will be carried up by a three-stage rocket. The third and final stage will enter an orbit 190 miles above the earth's surface. Then the propulsive parts will fall away and let the spherical Mouse continue on its own. It will circumnavigate the earth every 90 minutes, but will not do so "forever." There is still a little air at 190 miles, and friction will slow the Mouse until it finally sinks into denser air and crashes to earth or, more...
...High explosives for use in an implosion-type bomb, probably in specially fabricated shapes, with one side of each piece rounded out to fit on a sphere. Most high explosives are light tan in color, have a soapy feel, and are half again as heavy as water...
Bruce M. Selya '55, Vice-President of the U.N. Council, stated that his organization was resigning because it does not have the time to devote to a weekly film series. "Our function is primarily to educate and inform the University's students in the sphere of foreign relations, and we feel we can raise the required capital by showing only a limited number of films," he said...
...FNRS 3, designed and built by the French navy at Toulon, is much like Piccard's Italian-built bathyscaphe, the Trieste. Her submarine-shaped hull, filled with gasoline (lighter than water) supports a sphere two meters in diameter with stainless-steel walls 3.5 in. thick. The sphere is the only part intended to resist pressure. In it huddle the crew, surrounded by jampacked instruments and apparatus...