Word: brightness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bright spots of sunshine outline the ports on the cabin wall and floor. But outside of these spots of light, there is darkness in the cabin. If he moves his hand away from this shaft of light, it becomes invisible in the darkness. There is a sharp demarcation between light and darkness in space. Peering down through the earth's milky cloud veil, he will recognize continents and oceans, even make out objects one-sixth of a mile long or wide [e.g., the Pentagon...
...other truly bright spot, also in the third act, has the graying but still frisky Lord Brockhurst (Norman Patz), in France with his wife and eager for excitement, explaining to fluffy, pixie-like Dulcie, (Sally Ryder), one of Mme. Dubonnet's unfinished creations, that It's Never Too Late to Fall in Love. Then the wife (Judith Orchoff) appears and the spell is shattered...
While the Italians leaked their firm decision to a semi-official news agency, the missile they will get, the Army-designed Jupiter, was again proving its bright new reputation for reliability. In a summery twilight test-firing, Jupiter blasted aloft on its tenth successful flight (out of 15 tries, only one blowup), its third flight since Chrysler Corp. started supplying birds off its regular assembly line...
...naked eye the sun seems a smooth, bright disk. But astronomers have long known that its face is mottled with hot clouds of hydrogen gas, which seem to be the source of some of the radiation that periodically disrupts radio communication, and may have an important effect on the earth's weather. The clouds give off ultraviolet rays on the so-called Lyman-alpha line of the spectrum, midway between visible light and X rays. Since these rays are absorbed by the earth's atmosphere long before they can reach the ground, no earthbound camera has ever been...
Budding Irony. With the infinite patience of a housewife unsnarling an atrocious tangle of wool, Author Wedgwood shows just how the men of Parliament, aided by the Calvinist Scots, wound up the bright Cavalier cause, captured its fugitive leader and beheaded him. Their answer to flamboyant dash was the sturdy discipline of Cromwell's and Fairfax' "New Model army"; their retort to royal deceit was tough, businesslike cunning-along with an ironhandedness that eventually gave Cromwell the very absolutism he had denied to Charles...