Word: sphere
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With his fellow Communist leaders, Stalin was also reasonable-in the same way. Making it clear to Tito that he had agreed to share Yugoslavia as a sphere of influence with the British, he asked that King Peter be reinstated: "You need not restore him forever," he told Tito. "Take him back temporarily, and then you can slip a knife into his back at a suitable moment." His agents had reported Tito's partisans flourishing red stars. "What do you need the red stars for?" he asked Tito. "You are frightening the British. The form isn't important...
...time dabbling in such occult sciences as prophecy and mental telepathy, Godfried Bueren, 70, a West German patent attorney, never lost his amateur enthusiasm for astronomy. Finally, he announced, he had learned something that professional astronomers don't know. The sun, asserted Herr Bueren is a hot, hollow sphere, a million miles in diameter; inside its fiery shell floats a cool core, 600,000 miles thick and lush with vegetation. What's more, he had 25,000 marks ($5,945) that said he was correct about...
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles is "hepped" on the idea of having something to fill the gap between the Voice of America and the American army, Reston said. Thus he apparently wants to take the initiative not just within our own sphere of influence, but within the Iron Curtain countries as well...
...Second: in the strictly military sphere, certain problems of supply have reached farther serious proportions and require early correction...
Conventional spectacles, Dr. Feinbloom explained, are simply magnifying glasses with lenses shaped like part of a sphere. No matter how much they magnify, they do not have enough "resolving power" to project a sharp image on the retina (the screen at the back of the eyeball) if the retina is damaged. Most partially sighted patients have retinas like a coarse-grained photographic plate: they can record a sharp image only if they are fitted with a lens of unusually high resolving power...