Word: detected
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...eyes snapping, fired back at the snipers. In his answers his foes could find many of the things for which they jeer Ike: sprawling syntaxes and turbulent tenses, and a tendency to state his decisions as gospel without citing the reasons behind them. But his friends could also easily detect Eisenhower's sense of purpose and unflagging concern for the nation's wellbeing. Items...
When Sammy Davis swings into She'd Live in a Tent, Joey worriedly pretends to detect an Arab influence, announces: "Jewish people don't live in tents. We don't even smoke Camels." When Senator Jack Kennedy caught the show last week, Joey told him: "If you get in, Frank has to be Ambassador to Italy and Sammy to Israel. I don't want too much for myself-just don't let me get drafted again." Turning to the medical profession, he muses: "My doctor is wonderful. Once, in 1955, when I couldn...
...orthopedist (bone and joint specialist) may be the first physician to detect some cases of lung cancer, Dr. Paul E. Dee of Rockford, Ill. told the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. Explanation: cancer in the apex of the lung is often first signaled by pain in the shoulder, arm or neck...
...miles per second. Twelve hours later, the apparatus would be moving in the direction opposite to the earth's orbital motion, and light's speed should have been increased by the same amount. The appa ratus was crude by modern standards, but theoretically sensitive enough to detect this degree of change. No such effect was found. Light seemed to move at the same speed in all directions, regardless of the ether wind. So scientists had to abandon the concept of the luminiferous ether. Light had nothing to travel in, and therefore could not be simple waves. Worse...
...difficult concept, which even today few laymen and not all scientists fully comprehend. Furthermore, measuring the speed of light is so difficult that the Michelson-Morley experiment and its successors left a nagging possibility that when better apparatus was developed, it might yet detect some trace of an ether wind...