Word: throughly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Other Big Eight coaches roam farther afield for material. Every winter Missouri's Coach Dan Devine kisses goodbye his wife, six daughters and a son and spends 90% of his time barnstorming around the Midwest. Iowa State has lured no fewer than 23 players out of the fertile football...
Whipple thinks that the earth's dust layer is the remains of comets, which bring fragile blobs of material from the outer fringes of the solar system. He suspects that when these cosmic puffballs pass through the Van Allen radiation belts that girdle the earth, they collect strong electric...
In the Harvard clock a thin trickle of hydrogen gas flows through an apparatus that splits its two-atom molecules into single atoms. Each of these atoms has one proton and one electron, but some of them have slightly more energy than the others because their electrons are spinning in...
The tuning fork lies flat across the watch and carries small, conical magnets on its tines. When the tines vibrate, the magnets poke into tiny coils, generating a very small pulse of electric current that goes to a transistor and triggers it so as to permit a somewhat larger current...
Orders for the new series, through a record-of-the-month sort of operation known as Shakespeare Recording Society Inc. (4,000 members so far), are "twelve times what we expected," notes Partner Mantell. She once said: "After studying Greek, Gothic and Sanskrit, we were obviously unfitted for anything." Now...