Word: easier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Recommendation 5, "that a 15 minute period be allowed at the end of each of each House function during which all House members could return to their rooms with their dates," was rejected by an 11 to 5 vote. The provision was originally included to make it easier to pick up personal belongings such as suitcases, but the Council felt that it would result in long lines in front of the sign-out desk at 12:15 and was thus infeasible...
...upset the delicate mechanism inside. Then, having gone around the moon, Lunik swung back toward the earth, began to transmit the pictures. A slow system was used when Lunik was still at a great distance from the earth, a faster system when it came nearer and its signals were easier to receive. The transmission was done by a sort of TV camera that scanned the pictures electronically, line by line, and translated their varying shades of brightness into varying radio signals. The number of lines could be changed to give different degrees of definition. The maximum was 1,000 lines...
...Agamemnon is transformed for a few lines into a ferocious slaughterer of Trojans. Homer found this a necessary dodge, Graves believes, because powerful men in the poet's time considered themselves descendants of Troy's besiegers. While Homer composed in verse, presumably because it made the Iliad easier for court singers to memorize. Graves uses a combination of jogging, rhymed verse-for invocations, hymns and similes-and clear, unornamented, semicolloquial prose. His opening invocation suggests the rhymed couplets of Alexander Pope's Iliad: Sing, MOUNTAIN GODDESS, sing
Nishio's walkout will probably make it easier for Kishi to push through the Diet the revised security treaty that U.S. and Japanese diplomats are curently negotiating, and that Premier Kishi hopes to sign on a forthcoming visit...
...NUCLEAR REACTOR that may make atomic power competitive with conventionally generated electricity will be built by Martin Co. under an $838,163 AEC contract. Reactor system uses pea-sized pellets of atomic fuel, eliminates the need for complex control rods used in present reactors, makes it easier to recover valuable fissionable material from the reactor...