Word: esotericism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Esoteric Future. The hover principle has equally good prospects in industry. British Hovercraft is producing hover pallets, air-cushion platforms that can be used to move heavy industrial loads. In a recent British Hovercraft demonstration, for example, a 41-ton machine tool on a hover pallet was easily pushed several...
Engineers foresee even more esoteric uses. They have already designed a hover kiln, in which pottery is suspended over a moving conveyor belt by the hot gases used to bake it. And they are attempting to perfect a hover bed for badly burned patients who would actually lie on a...
Because love is there, Queen Allen is also the most esoteric rage in sophisticated London. Bridget, an art student, found her three years ago, moved in to look after her, and last year, in hopes of raising money to supplement Queen's $37-a-month-old-age pension, invited...
In that respect, the testing is proceeding at a pace never before felt in the history of American literature. Two generations ago, many poets were at work in the U.S.-probably a greater number of major poets than at present -but their world seemed narrower. The literary quarterlies spent more...
In a bare brick building a mile from the Square up Garden Street, the staff of the Harvard University Press every year sifts hundreds of esoteric manuscripts and publishes some 150. The Press's titles are diverse, and the six-fold increase in sales over the last two decades is...