Word: backes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...imagination, Britain's rocketeers are not afraid to tackle any of the problems of space travel. On exhibition at the technical institute of St. Martin's School of Art, London, is a carefully designed (on paper) rocket for carrying a man 180 miles up and bringing him back on a parachute. The designers, Harry E. Roses, production superintendent of Electronic Tubes Ltd., and R. A. Smith, of the government's rocket development center at Westcott, are planning for flights higher than 180 miles. They have tailored (on paper) a fully equipped "space suit" for explorers to wear...
...year-old son and 15-year-old triplets (two girls and a boy), has returned to the operating theater many times. In mask and gown she stood quietly observant behind doctors and nurses, pressing forward when one of her surgeon friends offered her a closer look. Back in her peaceful studio in St. Ives, Cornwall, she transferred her sharp-eyed observations to canvas...
Behind God's Back. The idea of God as Creator, says Barth, is not, as generally thought, an easily accepted article of the Creed on which "Christians, Jews and Gentiles, believers and unbelievers ... to some extent stand together." God as Creator is a mystery as difficult of comprehension as the belief that Jesus Christ was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of a virgin. "The existence of the creature alongside God is the great puzzle and miracle ... It is the genuine question about existence, which is essentially and fundamentally distinguished from the question which rests upon error...
...creation, but rather what was excluded by God's creation, that to which God has said 'No.' And if there is a reality of evil, it can only be the reality of this excluded and repudiated thing, the reality behind God's back, which He passed over when He made the world and made it good." Thus, evil is nothingness; and the man who wants to sin-"that is, to 'sunder' himself from God and from himself"-is doomed by, his disobedience to fall into this uncreated nothing...
...four weeks to come, Met-goers would get to see eleven more ballets made in England. And before the Sadler's Wells troupe went back to London, eight other U.S. and Canadian cities would get to see them...