Word: domes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ernest O. Lawrence thought he was being hopelessly daring when he suggested that it be doubled. The next month, the sum was doubled again, and the next, again. Finally, Washington received a strange message from Cambridge: "Mary Baker Eddy with one eye." Translation: the scientists had picked up the dome of the Christian "Now, don't be so modest, Professor. I'm sure you've got something up your sleeve that will blow us all to bits." Science Mother Church in Boston on their experimental radar...
...PLEASURE DOME (Columbia; $5.95). Thoughtful selections, some from the Library of Congress recording of 20th Century Poetry in English: T. S. Eliot. Marianne Moore, E. E. Cummings, William Carlos Williams and others, reading from their own works...
Study in Underpants. Last year Wisconsin's Republican Senator Alexander Wiley impressed himself on the folks back home by posing for photographs with his gavel about to descend on the bald dome of New Jersey's G.O.P. Senator H. Alexander Smith; this year New Jersey's 320-Ib. Democratic Representative T. James Tumulty made a big impression by posing in his underpants (TIME...
...Capitan. The road, which has been experimenting with two of the cars for a year, is so pleased with the results that El Capitan will be completely equipped with them by mid-1956. Included in the total: 35 all-chair cars, seating 67 passengers apiece, six diners, six dome lounge cars. While the height (15 ft. 6 in.) will cut speed on the bends, Santa Fe feels that on long-distance runs that drawback is offset by less noise and vibration...
...benched, due to a back injury, the varsity mile relay team was off its usual pace and the Big Red edged it into second place with a mediocre time of 3:23.3. A healthy Alpers would probably have given the Crimson the race, for with him the team has dome nearly four seconds better than cornell's time. Since the Big red won only three events, a varsity victory in the relay would have meant the Heps title...