Word: mid-point
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...concluded that the three dots above the female's raised arm represent the number six and probably indicate that the alien race has six-fingered hands. Finally, the bracket at the lower right seems to measure the height of the adults and is labeled at mid-point by the binary number eleven. Because the only length that the senders and receivers know in common is the 21-cm. wave length of the transmitted signal, it can be assumed that the adults are eleven of those wave lengths, or 71 ft. tall...
...With the mid-point of his four-year term at hand, the love affair between Canadians and their dashing Prime Minister is undergoing a transition. As Trudeau methodically went about planning his "Just Society" during his first 22 months in office, old problems persisted-inflation, regionalism, Quebec separatism. Some Canadians grew weary of the image of their Prime Minister as social pacesetter. "I have had it up to here," said a recent letter writer in a Toronto newspaper, "with pictures of our charismatic Prime Minister on vacation, smiling affably and benignly in his impeccable ski suit at some invariably exclusive...
...began Under the Volcano as the train left the quiet, modern city of San Luis Potosi, read through the night, and finished it just outside of Nuevo Laredo. Even from the first deliberately subdued chapters, I found the novel completely engrossing. By the mid-point I was entirely under Lowry's spell. The distractions of each station-stop became intertwined with the awesome experience of discovering Malcolm Lowry. A small pig urinated on my duffle bag, right there in the car. Lowry's Consul awoke from a drunken stupor, trying to focus on the scorpion in front of him, stringing...
...evolutionary changes, Heezen believes, may well have been caused by the temporary disappearance of the earth's magnetic field at the mid-point of each reversal cycle. In the absence of the field-which normally deflects many of the high-energy particles from outer space-cosmic-ray particles rained down unhindered. Enough of them penetrated the atmosphere to alter and damage the cells of existing organisms, destroying some species and causing mutations in others...
Planning for Trouble. Well past mid-point in its journey, the spaceship was sailing along smoothly. No problems, only precedents. On April 29, when Mariner reached a straight-line distance from earth of 66 million miles, it surpassed the record for long-distance space communications set two years ago by the unsuccessful Russian Mars 1 probe...