Word: width
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...type of radio telescope does not try to observe celestial objects with a single antenna. Instead, two antennas are placed a considerable distance apart and connected electronically so that they function like parts of a single, very large dish. Since a telescope's resolution is proportionate to its width, the double antenna has a far narrower beam than a single dish. Even finer resolution is obtained by long, rocking metal troughs that gather radio waves and focus them so that they interact with waves gathered by another antenna running at right angles to the first. In Australia...
...will change. Under way in the Arkansas basin is one of the most costly river-development programs in U.S. history. To be completed in 1970, the project will spend $1.2 billion (against $1 billion for the St. Lawrence Seaway) to create a navigable channel 9 ft. deep with a width of 150-250 ft. all the way from the Mississippi 516 miles west to the town of Catoosa, Okla...
Eble scores the top-level schools for their lack of concern with what happens in the majority of colleges. "Columbia University and Columbia Teachers College, physically separated by the width of a street, are intellectually separated by a moat as deep as ignorance." Eble thinks "the professional study of higher education seems certain to pass into the control of education departments of schools of second or third or tenth rank." "The heart of the matter is the unwillingness of the guardians of knowledge to examine the premises by which they live... Part of the energies now devoted to discovering...
...Harry Belafonte do the twist, and wondering what the stock market would do next.* But, as it does at many Bobby-and-Ethel parties, the 40-ft. by 16-ft. swimming pool took over. As a kind of gimmick, Ethel had thrown a 2-ft.-wide bridge across the width of the pool. Upon it, smack in the middle, were a table and two chairs. At one moment, Ethel was sitting there with John Glenn. Then Glenn was sitting there alone-while Ethel was floundering about in the water, bright red evening gown and all. Later, no one seemed quite...
...tailored for last week's Open, Oakmonth's string-bean fairways had been tightened to only 30 yds. in width on some holes, and the enormous greens had been shaved until only one-eighth inch of grass remained. Par had been lowered from 72 to 71, so tough that only 19 sub-par rounds were shot during the entire tournament. The lead skipped around as though the golfers were playing hot potato: Gene Littler, the first-day leader with a sparkling 69, sank rapidly to a tie for seventh, and five players held the lead at one point...