Word: probing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year's first Monday is a big day for all those with the wisdom to avoid Saturday classes. Early-rising auditors with a taste for genuine esoterica can begin their morning in the Robinson Seminar Room where Architectural Sciences 253 takes a full two hours to probe the mysteries of Reinforced Concrete, a three part course examining the respective problems of slabs, beams and columns. Those foregoing breakfast may prefer a broadening hour in Pierce 226, during which the theoretical chemistry of coagulation, corrosion, and sludge digestion are surveyed in Engineering 271a, guaranteed to make undergraduates flush with excitement...
...Russian lunar probe has less priority than other undisclosed projects, said the U.S.S.R.'s top space spokesman, Leonid Sedov. He said no more. Other astronauts concluded from what he said that he meant Russia will try to orbit a man in a Sputnik by spring. An American will achieve the same stunt within five years, said the U.S. Army's Wernher von Braun, "and most likely sooner...
...earth's magnetic field is now known not to come from a permanent-magnet core. A probe may help confirm the current theory that the revolving earth and its molten metal interior form a giant dynamo, generating electric currents and thus magnetism. If the probe reports that the moon itself has no magnetic field, it will make the terrestrial-dynamo theory seem more credible...
...best way to pierce these mysteries is to see how they affect the lunar probe. Such data alone will make the gadget a superb spy in space. It hardly matters whether it also becomes the greatest billiard shot in the history...
...fortnight ago raised their prices ½? to 27? a lb., last week cut their prices back to 26½?. But steel showed no sign of retreat, as steel price hikes spread to 65% of the industry's output. Though Tennessee's Senator Estes Kefauver started a probe of the increases, the Federal Trade Commission said that it had found no illegal price fixing in the steel industry, planned no action...