Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This unique tool was designed to symbolize the cooperation between the two universities in building and operating the $6.5 million machine, which is being financed by the Atomic Energy Commission. After gingerly poking at the earth, the two hoisted a shovelful over their shoulders. Most of the dirt fell on themselves...
...makes its Gothic point with perhaps the neatest and most ironic flourish. Lady Flora Gordon, a handsome Scotswoman of giant size, impressive intellect and unassailable chastity, meets in Rome a gentle, saintly priest who tries desperately to root out "her utter disbelief and her utter contempt of Heaven and Earth.'' When arguments fail, he finally confronts her with the brooding, majestic statue of St. Peter in the Vatican, a figure so noble in size and concept that it dwarfs even Lady Flora's proud body and arrogant mind. She comes daily to stand in communion with...
...proud nobleman is forced to his knees at the foot of a murderer who mysteriously may be his alter ego; in Echoes, a prima donna finds her lost voice only to lose all hope of using it. The characters are large, heroic figures and they are brought to earth with a resounding crash. Such men and women are rare in contemporary fiction; the art to make them live vitally -as Author Dinesen does-is rarer still...
Sputnik II--or "Muttnik" for dog lovers--is up and away. Not only has it and its canine passenger been up since 11:38 EST Saturday night, but by 8:30 this morning they will have circled the earth 19 times...
...Whipple was more than usually restrained as he commented at the Garden St. headquarters of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory that the second Russian launching probably required no greater effort than the first. Whipple speculated, as have most other American scientists, that the 1,120-pound object speeding around the earth is the third-stage of the rocket rather than a spherical satellite...