Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...answer to criticism of a comic book used for recruiting students for the R.O.T.C., the Army said this week that the books had done a lot in raising enrollments above the normal percentages even though college enrollment went down...
Last week the University of California's Dr. Theodore Leonidowitch Althausen suggested an answer: the human body can readjust itself, and learn to function almost normally, with anything more than two feet of jejunum plus the duodenum. Estonian-born Dr. Althausen had previously described a case in which a woman was left with only 18 inches of vital gut she died of malnutrition after three years. Now in Gastroenterology, Dr. Althausen and three colleagues described two cases in which, with but little more small intestine the patients were living normally...
...Hoyle believes that at least 100,000 of them must each contain at least one planet with physical conditions (temperature, chemical content, etc.) favorable to the development of life. The question whether life will develop where life is possible he leaves to the biologists, but he thinks their answer would be yes. He suspects, too, that life on faraway planets may have evolved along familiar lines. There may be "pseudo" men & women with two legs, two hands, large brains and two eyes-for all these bodily features have inherent virtues of which evolution may well have taken advantage...
...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 every billion years...
...filled with very thin hydrogen, about one atom per cubic inch. This gas is depleted, of course, when galaxies condense from it. But Hoyle was convinced that galaxies are forming continuously. So he calculated how much hydrogen must be supplied to keep up the formation of galaxies. His answer came out very close to the answer of Bondi and Gold. This check convinced both parties that the "continuous creation" of hydrogen in space is an actual fact...