Word: circular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...buried in a hillside, it is a huge doughnut of magnet steel, 656 ft. in outside diameter. Last week British Physicist John B. Adams, chief of CERN's Proton Synchrotron Division, ordered slight corrections in the magnetic field, watched as the protons sped faster and faster around their circular track inside the doughnut, triumphantly saw the oscillograph's curve reach 29 Bev, putting CERN's machine far ahead of the ten-Bev Russian accelerator at Dubna...
...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 from the center at 100,000 m.p.h. Other hydrogen clouds in the vicinity may be moving outward as fast as 400,000 m.p.h...
Fire upon the World. Gnosticism was strongly influenced by Oriental and Greek ideas, with their circular conception of time, as opposed to Judaism's linear time. The disciples said to Jesus: Tell us how our end will be. Jesus said: Have you then discovered the beginning so that you inquire about the end? For where the beginning is, there shall be the end. Blessed is he who shall stand at the beginning, and he shall know the end and he shall not taste death...
Most of the moon's hidden face is covered with what appears to be mountains, which always look brighter than seas. The Russians named one conspicuous series the Soviet Range; the rest of the area is probably, a Jacqwork of circular meteor craters. The published pictures were taken at almost "full moon" from Lunik's point of view, i.e., with the sun directly "overhead." At such a time, even steep slopes near the center of the moon's disk cast no shadows and are therefore hard to photograph. Other pictures may show many more craters, cracks, valleys...
...more man learns about viruses, said the University of Minnesota's Epidemiologist Leonard M. Schuman, the more he has to learn about controlling them. And this circular motion has speeded up enormously. Up to 1947 only 60 viruses had been listed as causing disease in man, and a mere 20 of these singled out the human species as their prime prey. The rest, like the one that causes eastern equine encephalitis (TIME, Oct. 5), normally attack lower animals, infect man accidentally, said Dr. Schuman...