Word: firmament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...entirely justified, however, on expressive grounds in the passage that describes chorally God's setting the lights in the firmament. The whole work, indeed, though agreeable for its simplicity and general plainness, would have profited from more of these picturesque set-pieces and less of the rambling recitative that was neither ritualistic in character nor quite naturalistic in its speech inflections...
...constellation in the firmament was the result of another astronomical phenomenon: the shooting-star career of the Lockheed Corp. itself. Thirteen years ago the company was sold for $40,000. Now it had nearly $50,000,000 in working capital. Then, it had only 15 employes. Now it has 32,000. The end of the war, Which had sent most big planemakers into reconversion on a lower key, had not knocked it off its high bracket. Its backlog of orders for planes was perhaps the greatest in the aircraft industry, a thumping...
...there anyone who still talks about the materialism of science?" wrote Robert Andrews Millikan, Caltech's famed physi cist. "Rather does the scientist join with the psalmist of thousands of years ago in reverently proclaiming, 'the Heavens de clare the glory of God and the firmament sheweth His handiwork.' " Hungarian-born Rene FtilSp-Miller, a onetime hermit on Mt. Athos who has written biographies of Pope Leo XIII, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Lenin and Gandhi, sees Physicist Millikan 's attitude as part of "a new 'renaissance,' which is about to bring back man's appreciation...
...Shakespeare's day, says Author Spencer, men were beginning to question the whole framework of this pillared firmament. Copernicus proclaimed that the sun, not the earth, was the center around which the planets were set. Montaigne described man as a "miserable and puny creature" for whom the universe cared nothing and who was "only another animal." Niccolo Machiavelli not only saw man as a cunning beast but insisted that the royal ruler of men must be a super-beast, without moral scruples in his control of the state and in his relations with other nations. As a final blow...
...will still release the copper to fabricators at 12?, absorb the difference. Similar offers will doubtless soon be made to other high-cost mines (like Miami Copper's low-grade Castle Dome property in Arizona). But the Government doesn't think that any price in the firmament can pry loose much more than 75,000-100,000 tons of additional U.S. copper...