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Word: earthing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...overall context of the cold war, the U.S. could view the exchange of visits with confidence-confidence in its own economic-technological strength, confidence that the advantages in East-West exchanges lay with the West. With nine satellites put into orbit around the earth, the U.S. had come a long way since the first Soviet Sputniks jolted the nation's confidence in the fall of 1957. And last week came the news of two more big strides in space-military technology: a 142-lb. paddle-wheel satellite that uses solar energy to power its transmitters and a monitoring system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Cold Thaw | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

...difference between the two marked the steady acceleration of the U.S. space program. Explorer I, still riding in space, is a 30.8-lb. cylinder that reaches an apogee of 1,600 miles. Explorer VI, weighing 142 Ibs., is more complex and reaches higher than anything ever orbited around the earth-26,400 miles, with ellipses to a low perigee of 157 miles. Its aluminum skin encases scores of miniaturized scientific instruments that are already reporting facts on space (see SCIENCE) never before revealed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPACE: Steady Acceleration | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

...used to drive future U.S. satellite instruments and to operate orbiting TV scanners that will transmit unclouded images of the solar system. Last week, with a wink at Christopher Columbus and George Eastman, Explorer VI televised back a crude image of smudges and blurs-the first picture of the earth ever shot from so far out in space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPACE: Steady Acceleration | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

What is the earth? "The earth is a blob of matter hurtling through infinite space." The old gentleman was visibly pleased by the conciseness of the answer...

Author: By Herbert Mcarthur, | Title: A Fable for the Senior Class | 8/13/1959 | See Source »

What is the earth? "The earth is a beautiful globe, blessed with natural resources and lovely landscapes, warmed by the sun and kissed by the moon." The old gentleman shuddered a little at such blatant subjectivity...

Author: By Herbert Mcarthur, | Title: A Fable for the Senior Class | 8/13/1959 | See Source »

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