Word: forte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...River is dominated by one of the piers for the since-completed Fort Pitt Bridge. The pier has the quality of an ancient monument, and perhaps the giant Negro who helped build it is descended from a builder of the Pyramids. His handshake sets the theme for the whole: friendship, love and earned reward. It is a surprisingly happy picture for Koerner, but more important is the fact that in an age when few even try to paint deep space, he has painted it so well as to bring even the most reluctant viewer straight inside the picture...
Bookish Football. Robert Anderson had an old-fashioned upbringing in a close-knit, pious, hard-working family in Johnson County. Texas, just south of Fort Worth. His father (who died fortnight ago at 81) was a storekeeper in the little town of Burleson, later took up farming on a 120-acre tract in Godley. Stricken at three with an attack of polio that left him with a limp, Bob grew up a bookish, unathletic lad, but he did his farm chores right along with the four other Anderson children. "He was serious-minded," his mother recalls. "From the time...
...created were picked up by the earth's magnetic field and lofted in arching curves around the earth in a man-made imitation of the Van Allen radiation belts. This effect was expected and was duly observed by U.S. scientists. But a team of the Army's Fort Monmouth men, led by Dr. Hans A. Bomke, was quietly watching for subtler effects. To pick up the faint traces they were looking for, they had to establish a widespread network of magnetometers, enlisted the help of Sweden, Iceland and Portugal. At each site, a huge antenna was laid...
...thin, high, outer fringe of the atmosphere, the Fort Monmouth men explained, the atoms of gas are ionized by solar ultraviolet light into positively charged nuclei and negative electrons. Theory suggested that at a certain altitude above the earth this charged plasma should have a sort of elasticity that would permit hydromagnetic waves to pass along it, rather like mechanical waves traveling along a coil spring. The Fort Monmouth scientists found that the Argus explosions started just such waves in a layer of plasma about 1,500 miles high. The waves were about 1,000 miles long, and they traveled...
...scientists followed the waves halfway round the earth and then lost track of them. But since the Argus tests, the Fort Monmouth team has noticed other waves that travel in the same high duct of plasma, apparently started by electrified particles slamming in from the sun. The Signal Corps is continuing to study its newfound duct. But when its scientists are asked whether they hope to find practical uses in communication, their military chaperons stop the conversation...