Word: towards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...certain: the "primary rays" are particles of some sort (coming from somewhere) that smack into the earth's atmosphere with enormous speed and energy. They hit and apparently crack up atmospheric atoms, scattering the fragments violently, like bullets smashing into a bag of marbles. The atomic debris cascades toward the earth, some of the pieces with enough energy to crack atoms on their own. Occasionally one of these "extensive showers" covers an area 1,000 meters wide. The total energy in a shower runs up to 10 18 (one billion billion) electron-volts...
...sunspots, which are whirling solar hurricanes, have magnetic fields of their own. Sometimes these cancel the sun's general field, making a narrow, nonmagnetic tunnel through which the particles escape. Dr. Forbush claimed to have observed sudden increases of cosmic radiation when such a tunnel happened to point toward the earth...
...first meeting ends there will be as many sects and denominations as before; there will be no "Protestant Pope," nor even a unified high command. But the hope is that a new peak will be reached in brotherly understanding, and that a long step will be taken toward church reunion...
Churchmen of all faiths were beginning to suspect that the movement toward a united Protestantism might paradoxically increase the scandal of Christian disunity by making the cleavage between Protestant and Catholic sharper than ever. But others, like Italian Waldensian Leader Jean Gonnet, felt that the Vatican would be just as happy about the Protestant movement toward unity as the most ecumenically minded Protestant. Said Professor Gonnet: "Rome is well pleased to see other Christians marching towards unity, because in her opinion this will inevitably lead to a return to the fold under one sole shepherd-the Pope...
...Five nations-France, Britain, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxemburg-meeting in Brussels, took an important step toward European Federation when they: 1. Signed a 50-year mutual assistance pact, with emphasis on a military alliance...