Word: earthing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crust of this old earth ready for Kiesler's structures such as "Endless House" [May 25], which are not premeditated by the prerequisites of conventional planning to secure the bank loan and a dogmatic facade for thy neighbor's sake? American suburbia still says no, I'm afraid...
...glass plastic. She wore gauze and charcoal diapers for daintiness. Since the g-forces of launching are much less (15 g) than those of hitting the atmosphere (38 g). she was suspended face down so that the bed would support her when the nose cone plunged back toward the earth. The capsule, a 250-lb. cylinder 41 in. long and 18 in. in diameter, contained a heating and cooling system and provided a change of air every 30 seconds. Before Abie's eyes was the light that would flash red. and close to her skinny fingers was the button...
...yeast cells, corn and mustard seeds, fruit flies, human blood (the donor: Captain William Augerson of the surgeon general's office), and the eggs and sperm of sea urchins. Some of the eggs and sperm were arranged to be mixed during the flight, causing the first conception of earthly life in space for the later study of earth-bound scientists...
former Princeton football player ('52) and writer: "They have missed a fundamental aspect of American life-work." Most of the U.S. artists are drawn to Rome because it is cheaper to live there. Their down-to-earth approach is reflected in their art: painting includes recognizable images, sculpture often mirrors the human form, prose and poetry tend to be lucid, coherent and direct. Few have qualms about accepting commercial commissions. Cracked one sculptor: "For a thousand dollars I'll do a head of grandma -guaranteed to look just like grandma!" Wives for Models. Typical of Rome...
...measure on the virility of American industry. And industry's strength depends directly on our ability to win the understanding of Government, of labor leaders, of investors in a national effort to encourage the investment of capital necessary to develop and acquire the finest tools of production on earth...