Word: slightingly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...space is a tough neighborhood for frail balloons. Microscopic meteorites punctured Echo's skin, allowing the gas inside to seep out. Sunlight exerted a slight but persistent pressure. Gradually Echo lost its regular shape; flat places and wrinkles appeared on its shiny surface. "She's prune-faced already," says Richard Slater of G. T. Schjeldahl, Northfield, Minn., the company that made the balloon. When Echo turns deliberately about once in eight to ten minutes, flat places sometimes act as mirrors, making the sun's reflection momentarily brighter. Wrinkled places dim the reflection. The radio waves that...
Strike Insurance. So far, the effects of the strike on industry have been slight. For the Pennsylvania, the strike was costly. The road has already lost $1,814,640 this year, estimates it will lose $2,500,000 a day in passenger and freight revenue because of the shutdown. But one factor softens the blow. It will receive payments estimated by Quill at $600,000 a day from a strike fund set up last year by most of the nation's biggest railroads...
Precisely at 8 o'clock one night last week, the slight, heavily shackled form of 28-year-old English Engineer Peter Poole dropped through the hangman's trap door in Nairobi Prison. For the first time in Kenya's history, a white man was executed for killing an African...
...greatest advantage is speed. It can be loaded with enough vaccine for 55 shots, can give 1,200 an hour, does not need to be sterilized for every shot, nor have a needle changed. For the patient, it is preferable because the injection feels like a slight, instantaneous pinprick...
Dealing in Towns. The firm that is towing the town away from Climax is John W. Galbreath & Co., headed by lively, slight John Galbreath, 63, who makes a specialty of buying company towns, sprucing them up and selling the houses back to the workers. Since 1941, Galbreath has revitalized and sold 17 company towns, including those of U.S. Steel, Westinghouse Air Brake Co. and Erie Mining Co. When the Climax Molybdenum Co. started having doubts about its town (dozens of employees had moved away), Galbreath moved in, bought the town of Climax for $1,500,000 and got ground near...