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Every year about this time, poets, young girls, and fashion writers frantically seek fresh, unique unwritten about harbingers of Spring. One used to be able to point to Braves Field, and connect the activity there with the first swallow. But the Braves are no longer in Braves Field. Perhaps one could point to the occult Rain Dance of the Hopi Indians as the first indication of the new season. But, while rain is a common feature of a Cambridge Spring, Hopi Indians are exceedingly rare, and one could never find enough together at one time to perform their Rain ceremony...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Rejects 'The Stringbean Silhouette' | 3/20/1953 | See Source »

...mistake to concentrate on one or the other now. What it could use is better acting: only Lucile Watson as the imperious spinster, and Zasu Pitts at moments as the maid, are up to the roles. But The Bat is fair fun even when it doesn't connect with the ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Play in Manhattan, Feb. 2, 1953 | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

...Rotunda in Dearborn, Mich., as part of its soth anniversary celebration. This will bring this Fuller idea closer to practical use and success than most; it has hitherto been the fate of most of Bucky's dreams to blow up when the attempt was made to connect them to the surging voltages of everyday life. This has never troubled Bucky. No matter what happens on earthly levels, his mind goes its own soaring way. Currently it is full of another concept of shelter for the human family in the form of'a great whirling blade overhead, which swishes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personality, Jan. 19, 1953 | 1/19/1953 | See Source »

...minutes* later, the report, like a nearby cannon shot, hit us and was followed by several seconds of dull rumbling. Then the mushroom expanded into a free halo, growing with tornado-like speed and reaching nearly over our ship before it appeared to cease growing. Then it appeared to connect itself to the main column by a web of filmy vapor. Typical comment from the oldtimers: 'Holy cow. That sure makes the A-bomb a runt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ATOM: H-Bomb | 11/17/1952 | See Source »

Astronomers have long known that the space between the stars contains a good bit of gas, dust, and probably larger chunks of unattached matter. The space between galaxies, however, they believed to be virtually empty. The only exceptions they knew about were faintly luminous filaments that seemed to connect a few galaxies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bridges in Space | 11/10/1952 | See Source »

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