Word: distantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...result that Aramco is no longer an American company with branches abroad; it is an American company with a branch in the U.S. To join Aramco today on a career basis means accepting a desert life, for an employee cannot hope to rotate from a job in a distant field to one in the home office; the home office is here. The turnover among American employees runs fairly high. Most join up in hopes of making a cushion: freedom from U.S. income tax, cost-of-living differentials and salaries about 25% above stateside rates for equivalent jobs are the lures...
...this strong man like a river of life, a river of genius," but no one knew whether to laugh or cry when "it turned out that the Russian was reading the part . . . that condemned the Germans ... for taking men and women away from, their homes and sending them to distant camps where they worked as slave labour...
Astronomers are full of facts about far-distant stars, but they know almost nothing about Venus, the earth's nearest (26 million miles) planetary neighbor. Its size, density and period of rotation are all uncertain, and no one has glimpsed its surface, which is always covered with clouds as opaque as marshmallows. In the latest Astrophysical Journal, Astronomer Gerard P. Kuiper of Yerkes Observatory tells how he learned at least a few facts about cloud-wrapped Venus...
...continued observations with a given apparatus for a very long time, what changes would we see?" asks Gold. As billions follow billions of years, the most distant galaxies slip over the edge of the universe as their light becomes too feeble to be observed. Faint nearby galaxies grow brighter as they collect more matter. As the space between them expands, new galaxies are born to glow faintly in the new space...
...Morrow; $3.95). A bloody envelope, a pink-and-white feather, a sailor's cap, a murdered Negro-what does it all add up to and how does it tie in with the South African firm of Lindel-baum & Co., wine and spirit importers? Thanks to the throb of distant tom-toms (which seem to be saying Mau Mau), the least alert reader can guess that the spirits imported by evil Mr. Lindelbaum are more vodka and voodoo than honest Scotch. South African-born Novelist van der Post (Venture to the Interior) has taken his theme from French Philosopher-Sociologist...