Word: domaine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President Eisenhower successfully defined the domain of the new Agency as it relates to the Defense Department agencies. In his message to Congress, Mr. Eisenhower said that the new Agency would control all programs save those "peculiar to or primarily associated with weapons systems..." The Defense Department has already made it clear that it believes that the Space Agency should devote its energies to research, which it defines as "fun in space...
...true even of the products of the "mass" publishers (Whitman, Simon & Schuster, Grosset & Dunlap), whose millions of books are pushed through supermarkets, chain stores, drugstores, Howard Johnson restaurants, newsstands, toy stores and mail-order houses. Their authors are either long dead (and their work, therefore, in the public domain) or journeyman writers, many of them organized in large talent pools. Ideas are assigned, stories written and rewritten by teams of writers and editors, often recalling the Hollywood assembly lines...
...salvation-something that could be brought a lot closer by wise legislation and the use of social pressure to protect the oppressed workingman and limit the power of his boss, to drive out the corrupt politician and put the vast natural resources of the New World into the public domain. Clergymen and laymen took up the cry 'for this challenging new way of interpreting ,the New Testament. Behind Rauschenbusch a new generation of militant ministers, such as Baptist Harry Emerson Fosdick, the late Methodist Bishop Francis J. McConnell and a young Midwesterner named Reinhold Niebuhr, were ready to step...
Inside, there is no display, only a single room domain staffed by three unmarried elderly ladies. Tables are piled with stacks of envelopes and green file boxes, and leaflet literature lies scattered on the floor...
...division of missions among the Army, Navy and Air Force was a matter of Biblical simplicity: the Army's domain was the land, the Navy's the sea, the Air Force's the air. Missiles upset this neat and workable pattern. To Army eyes, missiles are essentially artillery. The Air Force considers them unmanned planes. Navymen see them as modifications of carrier planes and battleship guns. Fearing loss of missions, prestige and even existence, the three services have scrambled fiercely for shares of the missile field. Result: three missile programs that duplicate and even triplicate each other...