Word: ballooned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Balloons & Feathers. The school's 150 pupils range from 4½ to the late teens. When they enter Clarke, many have never said a word, not even their own names. To get the sound "buh-buh-buh" across, a teacher may place her lips against a balloon, while the pupil places his on the other side. As the sound is repeated, the pupil learns it from the vibrations he feels. The "f" sound can be taught by holding a feather close to the mouth and seeing how it flutters when the consonant is spoken correctly. Puffing at a slip...
...Balloon or Cylinder. Before this fiery end, a satellite will serve its creators in many ways. One type (many different kinds can be shot into space) may be merely visible: a balloon that expands out of the nose of the final stage of a multistage rocket. It can be followed by telescope or perhaps by radar, and the path that it follows around the earth will give information about the density of the upper atmosphere. If big enough, this kind of satellite will appear at dusk as a bright and rapidly moving star that rises in the west...
...Bloody Sixth. Doing blackface skits and clog dances, miming Chinese laundrymen, Swedish servant girls and balloon-pants Dutch comics, the team clicked in Boston and New York. Harrigan discovered that he could write, and found a timely subject, the clash of the immigrant races amid settings of squalid realism. Haunting the "Bloody Sixth" Ward with notebook in hand, Harrigan transplanted New York lowlife to the stage to the immense delight of such real-life prototypes in the peanut gallery as One-Lung Pete, Slobbery Jack and Jake the Oyster. Together with his father-in-law David Braham, Harrigan also turned...
Stehling believes that the rocket must be launched in exactly the right direction, preferably 45° from the vertical. The balloon will carry an azimuth and delination mounting, probably a gyroscope, which will point the rocket eastward by "locking on to" the sun. After it is launched, it would require guidance only in the second stage. There are two possible ground-control methods: beaconed radar or moving intersecting radio beams. The third, satellite stage would be unguided and would carry only a 30-lb. payload of instruments or experimental animals. According to his calculations, it would reach 18,400 m.p.h...
There are other ways of putting up a satellite, Stehling admits, but most of them would require very large, elaborate and expensive rocketry. He believes that the balloon method of outwitting atmospheric resistance is the most practical way for man to take his first step toward space flight...