Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moon and back would cost roughly $2 billion, and that, say the scientists, raises an important question: "Since there are still so many unanswered scientific questions and problems all around us on earth, why should we start asking new questions and seeking out new problems in space? Scientific research, of course, has never been amenable to rigorous cost accounting in advance. Nor, for that matter, has exploration of any sort. But if we have learned one lesson, it is that research and exploration have a remarkable way of paying off -quite apart from the fact that they demonstrate that...
...common man the scientist is the authoritative master of a truth and a power to salvation. Here lies the key to well-being on this earth. It will win a war, improve education and morals...
...newsstand racks. But this week the second issue of a modest quarterly named Space Journal is selling like cheesecake. As an unofficial byproduct of the Jupiter-designing experts at the Army Ballistic Missile Agency in Huntsville, Ala., the magazine treats its out-of-this-world subject in down-to-earth language. Says one Space Journalist : "The American people have a hunger for space information, and we're going to keep them well...
...language and an attitude. The attitude is that of contemptus mundi, a scorn for the ordinary pleasures and privileges of life. The language is no longer Latin but mathematics, and this is the universal tongue in which the higher rituals of the order are conducted all over the earth. The candidate who presents himself for ordination must mortify the flesh through long years of labors in the laboratory. His reward is membership in a community which holds powrer and profit in contempt in its zealous devotion to a higher...
...sailed off with the big bergs "as they floated eternally to their doom." Wrote Freuchen: "Little by little it dawned upon me that there is a logical connection between everything that happens in that immense connected body of salty water that covers 71 percent of the surface of the earth." That logic led Explorer Freuchen to learn the lore he put into his book. He studied the science of the tides, waves and winds, learned about history's great sea battles. He came to know the tales of the great seaborne adventurers, from Bjarni Herjulfson. reputed...