Word: withe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Matter of Time. The sun is far out on one of the spiral arms of the galaxy, about 25,000 light-years from its center. Technically, the astronomers can only see what no longer exists, or rather what existed 25,000 years ago, when the radio waves they observe left...
The Dutch astronomers found that for 15,000 light-years toward the center, clouds of hydrogen fill the spaces between the stars, revolve around the center with reasonably circular motion. Then, 10,000 light-years out from center, comes a rather dense spiral arm of hydrogen that is moving away...
All four Russian spacemen, like most U.S. spacemen, are believed to be deep in military missile work. Sedov, a versatile scientist with important accomplishments in both mathematics and physics, has been head of the Soviet Academy's astronautics committee since 1955, is generally considered the No. 1 Russian spaceman...
Better Football. Crisscrossing the route of the spacemen, an equally eminent group of nine Russian atomic scientists was also touring the U.S. Led by Professor Vasily S. Emelyanov, chief of the Soviet Administration for Peaceful Utilization of Atomic Energy, they visited laboratories from California to Long Island, uranium mines, nuclear...
Died. Lyman Bryson, 71, longtime professor of education at Teachers College, Columbia University, who discussed the philosophers from the Greeks to Bertrand Russell over CBS radio beginning in 1938 (The People's Platform, Invitation to Learning), broadcast literate conversations with such contemporary thinkers as Arnold Toynbee and Albert Einstein...