Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...snorkel is continually taking in fresh air and exhausting either engine exhaust gas or stale air (it actually has two pipes enclosed in one large tube to make this possible). In our 31-day period the 95 men in the Skate were as completely divorced from the earth's atmosphere as though they had been in outer space. This was made possible by a battery of atmosphere purifying and recycling equipment that has been developed for use in nuclear submarines. At the end of 31 days, we were breathing the same air we started with more than a month...
...miles into the sky and 1,500 miles downrange; two hours later its nose cone was dipped out of the sea intact. It was the third nose cone to be retrieved, and, reported Army missilemen happily, it proved that the critical problem of warhead re-entry into the earth's atmosphere had been solved...
...frighten" humanity by exaggerating the threat of overpopulation, charged the Most Rev. Joseph A. Burke, Bishop of Buffalo, but Catholic ears should remain deaf to such fears. "If we have faith in God, he will not punish those who follow his command to be fruitful, multiply and fill the earth...
Geneticists are so confident of their new science these days that most of them do not dodge questions about the origin of life on earth. The first living things, they say, were probably crude, simple versions of DNA. They floated in an ocean, or perhaps some smaller body of water, and floating around them were all sorts of organic molecules that had been formed by chemical chance. At long intervals the crude ancestral DNA found and seized some molecule that it wanted. When it had caught enough smaller molecules, it was ready to divide into two identical parts...
...beaten track 60 miles northwest of Rome stands one of the strangest witnesses on earth to man's love of the curious and bizarre. Near the Villa Orsini at Bomarzo is a whole sculpture garden of beasts and ogres carved from volcanic rock (see color pages) on the site. Rarely has sentiment taken a more bizarre turn. Created in the 1560s by Duke Pierfrancesco ("Vicino") Orsini, the sculpture garden was meant not only to astonish and delight, but to serve as a memorial to Orsini's deceased wife...