Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made spaceships ever reach the moon, many space enthusiasts assume that they will find suitable landing gronds on the moon's vast, level plains. This assumptions is based on the view that the lunar plains, which are made of some darker material than the rest of the moon's surface, are actually lava beds poured out from once-active volcanoes whose craters now it the moon's surface. Recent observations, however, suggest that the moon has been a cold planet for so long that volcanic activity is not a satisfactory explanation of its topography. Instead, the belief...
...uneconomically small, the Air Force decided to do away with the program. The rationale behind the maneuver, however, cannot be presented solely in terms of economy; for the AFROTC's stake in the Harvard program transcends money alone. Not only the crying need for additional younger fliers, but the vast potential influence of the Harvard unit, make it essential that the Pentagon reconsider the new policy, ensuring that it does not lose more than it grains by dissolving the local unit...
Says Lawyer Justin Moore, the man who found Preacher Adams for Richmond: "Ted Adams is probably regarded by a vast majority of Southern Baptists of every political persuasion as the finest Baptist preacher in the world. But the fact remains that he could never be elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention...
...hand-ax layer contained mollusks that lived during one of the interglacial warm periods. The hand-ax layer itself was sprinkled with black pumice, a sure sign of volcanic activity. As Professor Blanc reconstructs it, the earliest Romans lived in a moderately warm climate on the shore of a vast lagoon that.covered the present site of Rome. The Torre site may establish what has long been suspected by Italian paleontologists: that Central Italy is one of earth's oldest inhabited places. Confirmation of this theory depends on Blanc's efforts to find human bones to match...
RUHR COAL MONOPOLY will be dissolved after two years of dickering among six nations in the European Coal and Steel Community. The 55 Ruhr coal producers will break up their organization, which acted as a vast sales monopoly, setting prices on 80 million tons (33% of European production) of coal annually. New plan will set up three independent and competitive agencies, all closely policed by the international group...