Word: groundful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much of a good and powerful thing. By the time you are facing "Mount Williamstown, from Munzana" (1944); on the last wall of prints, you hardly register the now-familiar enormities around you. You almost pass by untouched, but a piercing ray of sunlight glints off the center middle ground. You look again at the terrifying array of boulders marching out at you. There is a start of recognition...
Later this summer the Hospital will break ground on the $9.5 million research building. In addition to the present NIH grant, the Hospital received $2,470,000 in an earlier grant from the NIH last January. The rest of the money required for construction comes from individuals, corporations, and foundations...
...disbanded its cavalry. When it came time to film the 1?-mile charge, many of the horses could barely finish. As for the soldiers, they just kept smiling broadly-at the camera. And when they were called upon to fall in battle, they spoiled everything by rolling on the ground and laughing...
...than at the other. It is 6 ft. long, 4| ft. wide, 21 ft. deep. Sheathed in a Johnson-designed nylon heat shield for re-entry into the earth's atmosphere, the craft is equipped with a swivel-mounted retrorocket, attitude-control jets, a transponder for ground control, a built-in oxygen supply, a parachute and a survival kit. Johnson envisions a typical Apollo spacecraft as carrying three such lifeboats in its service mod ule or equipment section...
...altitude of 50,000 ft., a bar-ostatically-triggered drogue parachute is released. In turn, the craft's main parachute is pulled open, and the astronaut descends, feet first, at 15 ft. per sec.-slow enough for a safe landing on either water or solid ground...