Word: gardens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...makes rockets fly but gave the essential sailing directions for space ships of the future. When a U.S. Atlas or an even bigger (for the present) Soviet space rocket roars into the sky. it runs on rails devised by the ill-tempered Sir Isaac, who sat in his English garden nearly 300 years ago and wondered why things move as they do, and why things fall. When a rocket engine shoots a jet of gas out of its tail cone, Newton's third law takes over: For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Acting...
...London's City predicted that the Treasury would quickly approve the Tube-Reynolds takeover, Alcoa in Pittsburgh tersely gave notice that it had "no further interest" in the matter. Privately, Alcoa officials fumed that the Aluminium management had led them down the garden path by airily assuring Alcoa that Treasury approval was routine. The worst of it was that once Alcoa had signed the $8.40 agreement, it could not go into the market and offer more without making the $8.40 look bad. To top off Alcoa's unhappiness, its chief competitor had a major European affiliate; Alcoa...
...lies in the bone-dry wit and intelligence with which Novelist Austen ordered and fixed this stately marital bear garden; no novelist, before or since, ever trod more precisely the thin borderlines that divide the heart from the purse, the ambitions from the conventions, the rigid rules of the game from the fibbing, cheating gambits of the desperate players. The game is tough often to the point of grimness, but it is always comedy, never tragedy. "Let other pens," wrote plain Jane coolly, "dwell on guilt and misery...
...Crimson track squad will face a host of the nation's best performers at the Knights of Columbus invitational meet Saturday night at the Boston Garden. Despite the class of the opposition, the varsity's chances are good in both individual events and the relays...
Demonstrating a brand of play unknown in the United States, the Russian hockey team scored at 3:02 of the opening period and was never headed as it went on to score an effortless 11-1 win over the Crimson last night at Boston Garden...