Word: earthness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moon and build some hospitals? Give up our voyage to Mars and buy some beds and equipment. Let's leave Saturn alone for awhile and train more nurses. Let's have more doctors, more schools, more colleges, more teachers. Why not take care of us here on earth first and then investigate whether the Martians like vanilla or chocolate ice cream...
...Mortimer J. Adler simply does not gain from historical experience. In his arguments against the possibility of an intelligent mechanism created by man [Jan. 12], he reminds one of those critics of past eras who loudly proclaimed the earth to be flat, or that man will never fly, or that space exploration will forever be flights of imagination and no more. Perhaps there is an ingredient missing in today's computer that prevents it from achieving intelligence. Remember: a glider is just a glider until one adds an engine. When Mr. Adler goes on to enumerate the qualities...
...Christian vocation to canonize the human condition as such or to lament over it. It is our vocation to rise above it where it drags us down; to ennoble it by the operation of that Spirit Who continually refreshes the church and renews the face of the earth...
...oceans around him. Although scientists have photographed and successfully mapped the hidden backside of the moon, 240,000 miles distant, and made other great strides millions of miles away in space, they have taken only faltering steps in the nearby depths of the seas. No known point on earth lies more than seven miles beneath the surface of the ocean, yet not much more than 5% of the ocean bottom has been explored...
...Then they tried again, using the arm to steady the box against Surveyor and simultaneously pressing down. This time, success. The box descended to the lunar surface, and the crucial, drawn-out process of testing began. This week JPL will be sifting the first results relayed to earth from...