Word: earth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been made within the framework of the Government's annual budget.* This control has, again and again, appeared and reappeared as the prime limitation upon our scientific advancement . . . What should be our goal? If, out in space, there is the ultimate position-from which total control of the earth may be exercised-then our national goal and the goal of all free men must be to win and hold that position...
...Department has recently been consulted by high schools across the country about the possibilities of such a move. The department has never received such inquiries before this year, Lord stated. He felt that the awakening of interest in Russia undoubtedly results from the notoriety produced by the U.S.S.R.'s earth satellites...
...upon row, people leaned forward to catch every word, feverishly scribbling in their notebooks. The mesmerizing drone of the theologian lifted them, trance-like, beyond the everyday world of corporeal men and concrete things. It carried them high, high into the tenuous stratosphere of abstraction, where the earth below could be glimpsed only briefly and dimly, as the ponderous metaphysical clouds parted for a moment, then coalesced in still thicker obscurity. Through the shadowy haze, however, they could sense the mammoth struggles that the voice affirmed were raging all around them. From far off they could sometimes catch the sound...
...Redstone will be used as the first stage of the Jupiter-C vehicle with which the Army plans to establish a small earth satellite in orbit...
Roberts explained that the policy of Buildings and Grounds is to start clearing the walks as soon as the snow begins to fall. The Department uses mechanical units for shoveling rented from Sullivan & Co., an earth moving concern...