Word: aurora
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Erie Mining Co., jointly owned by Bethlehem, Youngstown and two smaller companies, has operated a pilot taconite plant near Aurora, Minn, since 1948, is building a $300 million plant that will start up in 1957, will have a 7,500,000-ton annual capacity...
...institution. The university's 13-building campus is uniquely equipped to give special training. Its geologists have studied the chemistry of the arctic's soil and the effect of frost and thaw. Its Geophysical Institute has become a center for research into the upper atmosphere and the aurora. Last year some 30,000 visitors trooped through its museum to examine 100,000 Indian and Eskimo exhibits as well as the skeletons of the hairy mammoth, super bison, musk ox, Pleistocene horse and saber-toothed tiger. Meanwhile, the university has spread its influence far beyond its own borders. Last...
...Snyder was immediately summoned to his bedside. The chronology of events that followed: 2:45 A.M. After an initial examination, General Snyder detected the first symptoms of a heart attack. Upon completion of this diagnosis, eleven hours later, he decided to move the President to Fitzsimons Army Hospital in Aurora, Colo., nine miles away...
...hold his own in any company. Some of the most exciting dancing is provided by the company's newest ballerina, leggy young (22) Svetlana Beriosova. She is less technically accomplished than some of the older soloists, but last week, dancing Fonteyn's role of Princess Aurora for only the fifth time, she showed the special quality that can transform a dance from a series of steps into a magical whole...
Through the years on shipboard, Wouk had been pecking away at a novel. Aurora Dawn was written in an 18th century style as quaint as a minuet, but it dealt with a 20th century subject, "the contrast between the rat-race values of the radio-advertising world and the stable values of an Old Testament hillbilly prophet who gets mixed up with it." Wouk thinks of it as "a compendium of first-novel errors," but the Book-of-the-Month Club grabbed it. From that day to this, Wouk has pursued "the hard, borderline trade" of writing with monastic dedication...