Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Statehouse, where it rested three days with a policemen's guard around the bier and 100,000 filing past. Whispered one old lady: "If the Good Lord had made a pact with Curley and given him a choice between this here and a little more time on earth, Curley would have taken this...
...year-old ex-President Herbert Hoover, as it had in 1918, for "distinguished service to humanity."*Cracked a proud, beaming Hoover: "Your presentation after this 40-year interval should be construed by those who come after me as a certificate of the propriety of my conduct when on this earth...
...MOLE (Molecular Orbiting Low-Level Explorer). First hint of its existence came last spring when a Washington-datelined story in Electronic News reported that the Pentagon "is becoming heavily committed" to a radically new weapons system, added: "The MOLE should put an end to war. No location on earth will be secure from the MOLE." Later stories reported that 1) a special new agency (Subterranean Exploration Agency-SEA > had been set up to handle the new weapon and 2) the prime contract had been awarded to Accuracy Inc. of Waltham, Mass. Accuracy Inc., said the reports, was letting subcontracts...
...will fly nearly twice as fast and nearly twice as high as the present piston planes, pack 40 times the power in its turbine engines. It will shrink the world by 40%, making no spot on earth more than a day's distance from a jet airport...
Psycho Somo-Tic. Huxley is prepared to concede that 2 billion may be company on earth, but that three will be a crowd. With the air of the fourth wise man, he says that "on the first Christmas Day" there were only 250 million. It took all the time since then until the Pilgrim Fathers to double the figure. When he was writing Brave New World, in 1931, world population stood at just under 2 billion. Today, "only 27 years later, there are 2,800,000,000 of us." People keep breeding, as it were, behind Huxley's back...