Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...smaller bits and spiraled closer to earth. On Jan. 6 he distinguished eight distinct fragments, all of them still orbiting, but at slightly different speeds. Toward the end, it took as much as 30 minutes for the procession to cross Ohio. Dr. Kraus thinks that the Sputnik's thin metal skin disintegrated first, allowing its contents (batteries, instruments, radio apparatus, etc.) to come apart...
...explain the seams of coal in Antarctic mountains. Coal is the remains of lush vegetation, and nothing except a few hardy lichens and mosses grows in Antarctica now. One theory is that Antarctica had a tropical climate many millions of years ago. Another is that the earth's thin rocky crust shifted around its plastic core like the loose skin of a puppy, marching a fertile continent with all its plants and animals to frozen death at the Pole...
...level. To get enough oxygen for the heavy work they do, the Indians have conspicuous barrel chests and outsized lungs, but they also have subtler adaptations to altitude. The pockets in their lungs (alveoli) have more capillaries so that their blood can capture more oxygen from the thin air. A mountain Indian has about two quarts more blood than a sea-level person, and his red blood cells are bigger and more numerous. If he lives at three, miles altitude, he may have twice as much hemoglobin, the oxygen-carrying substance, as an ordinary person. His heart, which...
...year-old student (played as winningly by Joan Plowright as she plays the 94-year-old wife in The Chairs). The play perhaps symbolizes how pedantry destroys individuality, but like so much anti-academic satire, runs to academic jokes. Ionesco's seems an agreeable but thin talent, with a kind of philosophic-puppet show appeal...
...burial permit. When Dr. Cooney made known his quandary, he had no trouble hitting Page One. Last week, over-cutely swathed as The Complex Mummy Complex, Dr. Cooney's story got into TV as the Armstrong Theater's first comic dramatization-from-life. Stretched far too thin in an hourlong script, the joke was not nearly so funny as it must have seemed on paper or in real life. But it did make the 1,600-year-old hero the most popular mummy in Brooklyn. As callers swarmed on him, Dr. Cooney explained: "We still...