Word: heavensent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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A Senate subcommittee with eyes cocked at the political heavens summoned Chief of Staff Eisenhower last week to explain the demobilization snafu-and incidentally to air their own views. They reckoned without Strategist Ike Eisenhower. Before the week was out he had passed the buck right back to Congress.
How seven Chungking patriots, despite the jeers of the Chinese press, organized a "Praying-for-the-Rains Dragon Corps" to save the crops of Szechwan Province. They shouted, beat gongs, organized public prayer, and, shortly, the heavens obliged.
Amateur's Dream. Shy, grizzled Astronomer Friend has been squinting insatiably at the heavens for some 50 years. He recalls being routed out of bed as a five-year-old for his first look at a comet. At eight he was marking the rise and set of stars and...
"Is there anyone who still talks about the materialism of science?" wrote Robert Andrews Millikan, Caltech's famed physi cist. "Rather does the scientist join with the psalmist of thousands of years ago in reverently proclaiming, 'the Heavens de clare the glory of God and the firmament sheweth...
When I consider Thy heavens, the "work of Thy fingers;