Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Linda's mother returned, heard the maid's story and anxiously opened the letter. Clumsily lettered, it read: "Your child has-been kidnaped . . . The amount is $20,000. cash or negotiable bonds. Put same in envelope on top of your Sol y Lomas gate tonight if you can. If not until tomorrow night put a red rag as sign ... If not at all-your kid will die of cold and hunger. New Mexico is an easy place to lose a body. Do not talk about this to police, FBI or friends. Any effort to interfere with our messenger...
Studying the results of 47 long hormone treatments (26 with ACTH, 21 with cortisone) for a wide range of diseases, the doctors found that 77% were followed by an increase in the amount of cholesterol (a soapy, fatty alcohol) in the patient's blood. So far, nobody fully understands the connection between cholesterol and hardening of the arteries; it may be that only certain giant cholesterol molecules are to blame (TIME, June 5). But, the Mount Sinai doctors warned, enough evidence is already in to demand closer study and great caution...
...enormous amount had been learned since the days of Eddington and Jeans. The chemical composition of stars was known: they are mostly hydrogen. The source of their energy was known: it is chiefly a nuclear reaction that turns hydrogen into helium. The stars-at least those within the telescope's field-had been measured, studied, divided into classes. The galaxies, those vast swirls of stars out in distant space, had also been measured and classified. There were new theories too, and good ones, but no general theory to knit things together. This was because (as Hoyle explains disarmingly) there...
...Hoyle and Lyttleton went further: they concluded, after long mathematical labor, that a star's "fate" (what happens to it during its life of many billions of years) is determined by how much interstellar gas and dust it has managed to gather. It may capture only a small amount, and so remain a commonplace star, like the sun. It may capture a lot, become unstable and eventually blow...
Continuous Creation. According to Einstein's relativity, four-dimensional space (three dimensions plus time) is in a sense "curved," and its curvature and therefore its "size" depend on the amount of matter within it. If more matter were added, space would have to stretch, carrying the galaxies with it. Why not, asked Bondi and Gold, figure out how much matter would have to be added to make the galaxies recede at the observed rate? The answer, dragged from thickets of mathematics, came out very simple. One atom of hydrogen, they calculated, must be added to each quart of space...