Word: diagramed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Later steps are more fun. To reach the moon from an artificial orbit is elementary stuff; voyages to a planet take more figuring. One plan for a trip to Venus, for instance, uses space ships from an orbit around the earth to establish a base on the moon (see diagram). A special ship then takes off from the moon at a moment when Venus is considerably behind both earth and moon on its shorter and faster orbit around...
...search for ever more powerful weapons, had caught something of the secret of the sun's own power. It was the kind of event to date the beginning of a new era. But the men who watched the test-including a sailor who drew a diagram of the explosion in his letter (see NEWS IN PICTURES)-caught the meaning better than any of the headlines. They simply called the explosion "Lulu...
...Navy announced that the U.S.S. Antietam was in Brooklyn's Naval Shipyard for a million-dollar face-lifting.When the workmen have finished, the rear deck of the Antietam will angle to port so that landing aircraft will no longer head directly toward planes parked at the bow (see diagram...
...quit school and pestered a local contractor for a job. "Son," the contractor told him, "you're a damn fool to go into building. Go into farming, that's where the money is." Nevertheless, he took Harrison on as an office boy, and later even let him diagram some stone designs. Harrison soon noticed something about the contracting business: the contractor took his orders from the architect. That decided him: he would be an architect...
...police have secretly picked up at least two U.S. Government employees in Buenos Aires and grilled them. Both work for the U.S. Information Service. Roberto Mujica Lainez, a onetime Argentine newsman, was confronted at police headquarters with a stack of papers taken from his home. One showed a diagram of the seating arrangement for a dinner party he had just given. "What are these blueprints for?" barked a cop. Finally released, Mujica was ordered not to tell a word about the questioning...