Word: cosmically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...smoothness of a thoroughly rehearsed production. Alkmena is anemic, Amphitryon should be more possessive. Instead of vigorous verbal fencing between Jupiter and Alkmena, we hear but gentle gibes. Muffed lines, awkwardly handled props, clownish warriors, nonexistent Theban mobs, and a series of confused sounds purporting to be "cosmic music" mar the plays buoyancy...
...Zacharias hopes to have ready the first part of an experimental textbook that will concentrate on basic laws and include the major discoveries of the last few years. For especially interested students, Laura Fermi, widow of the Nobel Prizewinner, is editing a series of paperback monographs on everything from cosmic rays to ferromagnetism. In addition, the project will turn out scores of films that alone will cost $2 million...
...covered with rapidly moving fluids. Its atmosphere swirls with big and little storms. Its oceans are stirred by currents. Its solid crust shakes like jelly, and its plastic interior probably flows slowly in largely unknown ways. Influence? from the sun and beyond the sun affect the passive earth. Cosmic rays from the depths of space beat upon it, and meteors plunge like fireflies into its atmosphere. Its magnetic field fluctuates slightly; so does its gravitation. Scientists are sure that all these changes and influences are interconnected in intricate ways, but no one knows just how, because no one has "ever...
Some of these stations will do exciting things, such as shooting rockets to the top of the atmosphere or launching great balloons with instrument-packed gondolas. The duties of others will be exciting only to dedicated specialists: monotonous observations of winds, ocean currents, cosmic rays, the aurora, changes in the sun's surface, fading of radio waves and twinkling of stars. But all such observations will be important, and the data flowing from them will be carefully stored and catalogued in designated centers...
...nchners flooded every gallery in the building. They noted such improvements as the overhead skylights and lighting, and walls tapestried with ivory silk. Hanging against them with vibrant life were 800 paintings, the world-famous masterpieces back home again: Dürer's Four Apostles, Altdorfer's cosmic Battle of Alexander, Rubens' dramatic Battle of the Amazons, Rembrandt's eloquent Descent from the Cross, El Greco's ominous Despoiling of Christ, Boucher's luscious Girl Resting...