Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This vision of the future is not science fiction but a serious project announced this week by Raytheon Manufacturing Co., maker of all types of radar. Raytheon believes it has achieved the longtime dream of engineers: the transmission of electrical power by radio waves...
Yakking in the Blue. At the outset, Kerouac warns what he is up to: "The other night I had a dream that I was sitting on the sidewalk on Moody Street. Pawtucketville, Lowell, Mass., with a pencil and paper in my hand saying to myself 'Describe the wrinkly tar of this sidewalk, also the iron pickets of Textile Institute, or the doorway where Lousy and you and G.J.'s always sittin and dont stop to think of words when you do stop, just stop to think of the picture better-and let your mind off yourself in this...
...dream only about that!" Ellen Maytag interrupted David. "Some people also think about how to keep the peace. If only they would tell us how to do it. They teach us things we already know... We can't trust our reporters, can't believe our radio and TV programs. They all distort the truth. Our professors are immortalizing falsehood. For 4 years the university administration stuffs us with lies. This is not only in Stanford...
...floor of a building overlooking the Moscow River and the Kremlin. Although she earns an estimated $25,000 a year as leading ballerina of the Bolshoi, she maintains no country dacha, but drives a six-cylinder Volga, which she hopes to turn in someday for a larger car ("I dream," she says, "about its automatic shift...
Spreading to adults, Aycock's education drive produced the South's first great college extension service at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Its regular faculty members roamed far and wide, by World War I came near their dream of using "the whole state for a campus." Sample of their work: road-planning "institutes" at Chapel Hill (1914-19) kicked off the South's first big, well-planned highway system; statewide high school debates focused on the need for good school libraries, got them going; extension service teachers organized part-time refresher courses for country...