Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Saturn-like ring that once surrounded the sun. Most of them are believed to stay far beyond the outermost planets, moving on orbits so distant that they are invisible. A few have been affected by some passing star and deflected into lopsided orbits that carry them periodically down toward the sun. These are the comets that become visible to man's eye and telescopes...
...long as these "dirty snowballs" stay far enough from the sun, as most of them do, they lead peaceful lives, but a plunge toward the center of the solar system is a wild adventure. As a comet approaches the sun, its surface is warmed by the strengthening sunlight. Layer after layer, the ices turn into gas. Soon the nucleus is surrounded by a rapidly growing cloud, of gas and dust boiled out of the solid nucleus. This cloud, the comet's head, may be many thousands of miles in diameter. It is so transparent that stars show through...
Radical Tail. During its plunge toward the sun, Comet Arend-Roland developed a respectable head and tail, and there is good reason to hope that it will come through its solar ordeal without too much loss of substance. Astronomers have plenty of questions to ask it; their instruments and understanding have improved enormously since...
...controversy last week. One was Basel's bearlike Karl Barth, the most influential Protestant theologian of his time; as a professor at Bonn University, he defied Hitler early in the Nazi regime, but since World War II Barth has angered many by his live-and-let-live attitude toward Communism, his sharply anti-U.S. attitude. His antagonist last week was U.S. Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, himself a sometime left-of-center critic of U.S. policy. The issue for which Niebuhr takes Barth to task in the pages of the Christian Century: Barth's failure to raise his voice...
...could never manage capital letters). Gamest and gamiest of cats is the mehitabel that archy reported on, who insists that she was once Cleopatra and though bedraggled and back-alleyish now, is always a lady and toujours gai. The two friends are an easy pair to feel tender toward, but much less easy to endow with stage life...