Word: heights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over the dingy Southampton docks loomed the three gigantic orange stacks, the coruscating white superstructure of the Queen Mary, Captain Illingworth, Master. Her 1,020-ft. length and her towering height dwarfed the battered buildings of the blitzed waterfront. The tugs chugged alongside. Antlike figures made fast the tossed lines. The town band, percussive and perspiring, panted with bravura through the Merry Widow Waltz, Pomp & Circumstance, and struck up the great invocation: Rule, Britannia! Through the mist in some watchers' eyes the colossal Cunarder wavered moltenly. Even Colonel Blimp blew his nose with a Tory blast prolonged...
From the Princeton University campus, physicists last week released a chain of 28 helium-filled balloons to a height of 17 miles. The balloons carried 17 pounds of electronic equipment, which were supposed to tell scientists, by means of varying tones, what the cosmic rays were doing in the stratosphere. Owing to failure of the instruments, nothing was learned...
...undreamed vistas" of space, Dr. Zwicky plans to use three kinds of projectiles: 1) large primary rockets, such as the V2, which will carry scientific instruments to the upper parts of the earth's atmosphere; 2) secondary rockets, which will be launched from the primary rockets to a height of 650 miles, and will also carry recording instruments; 3) flying missiles, "capable of flying off into interplanetary space, never to return," which will be hurled free at a speed of over seven miles a second...
...great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, cousin to George VI and Admiral Viscount Mountbatten, was back to shirtsleeves. Since arriving in the U.S. last October, her blonde ladyship has lent her name to a line of Indian textiles, to a dancing school, to a chewing-gum ad ("[Gum] is the height of good taste"). Now, she announced, she had a job, as plain Miss Mountbatten, in the Manhattan publicity offices of Columbia Pictures Corp., and liked the U.S. so much that she had decided to stay...
...whose sensuality is unsurpassed in the late romantic era. His models were Liszt and Wagner, both of whom did their level best to transfer their sexual emotions to music. But who knows that the Bach fugues that some consider so dry and pedantic at this time were not the height of voluptuousness when they were created? And Mozart, who so often is accused of superficiality, was in a sense the Wagner of his time, only in good taste...