Word: globe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the story broke on the Herald's front page Wednesday, first to comment extensively was Harold Kaese of the Globe. Wrote Kaese, "The average Harvard alumnus, I've found, is pretty much like all other average alumni. Of course, he has more money. He is more modest. And he is smarter...
Jerry Nason, Globe writer, defended Jordan by saying that "in manpower Harvard still has only 12 1/2 cents for a 15 cent ride...
...needed to be done, if only as a historical document." The document was crudely etched. Because both funds and the spare time of modern scientists were at a premium, there were few rehearsals and few retakes. Budgetary corners were sharply cut, e.g., when Seaborg asked for a relief globe he got a weather balloon, and when that burst, made do with a beach ball. But the producers and performers in The Elements were not haunted by the limitations of commercial TV, and therefore were able to build their shows on the conception that their viewers would look because they wanted...
...charge for our fourth decade." With the kind of optimism that helped his immigrant father become one of the great U.S. success stories, Bobby Sarnoff professed to see a pleasant sight. "At our 60th anniversary convention," he said, "I expect to be talking about television signals which span the globe. My subject then will be: The World-in Color...
...which treat the atmosphere as if it were as two-dimensional as a sheet of paper. Looked at in the large, this is not far from true. The part of the atmosphere that concerns the weather is only some seven miles deep, and it covers the surface of a globe 8,000 miles in diameter. Proportionately, it is much thinner than the skin of an apple...