Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before the Senate, Scelba made no pretense that Italians had got all they wanted. "I would fail in my duty," he said, "if I did not frankly confess that these frontier adjustments grieve us deeply." But he added triumphantly: "After ten years the flag of the fatherland will again fly over the town hall and the Church of San Guisto of Trieste." At that, the whole Senate rose to its feet, the center and right cheering, only the Communists silent. (They could not afford to oppose the universal Italian yearning to have Trieste, but neither could they stand...
...prominent front-page headline in Friday's Harvard CRIMSON referred to Cornell, graciously enough, as the "Frontier of the Ivy League." Rather a concession for the Harvard boys, at that...
...gospel singers have a tradition that reaches back some 200 years to frontier days when countryfolk made up their own words to familiar secular tunes. Eventually, new tunes were written for community sings, camp meetings and revivals. The custom took root in the South, where musical evangelists and composers published volumes of their own songs. One of them, a trombonist-singer named Homer (Brighten the Corner Where You Are) Rodeheaver, managed the music for Billy Sunday. Gospel songs, he wrote, "are not written for prayer meetings, but to challenge the attention of people on the outside . . . They are used simply...
...Vertical Frontier...
...body puts sharp limitations on how high he can go and how fast he can be accelerated to supersonic speeds. He has reached what Space Physiologist Hubertus Strughold aptly calls "the vertical frontier." To help conquer the frontier is the task of a young and bustling specialty: aviation medicine...