Word: known
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...submarine revolution has its concomitant fact of cold-war life: every U.S. advance in submarine science is presumably within technological reach of the Soviet Union. U.S. intelligence indicates that the Russians have not yet built any nuclear subs. But the U.S.S.R. has the biggest submarine force ever known-500 boats, almost ten times the number Hitler had at the start of World War II. At least half the Soviet subs are new and big enough to have missile-launching capability, powerful enough to make long-range patrols into western Atlantic waters. In the last six months...
...surface in the North Atlantic alone. Surface surveillance, given enough men and equipment as well as allied cooperation, is a technical possibility. But it is of the unknown depths of the sea, the mysteries of the 2 billion-year-old undersea world, that man knows pitifully little. More is known of the near side of the moon than of the ocean floor...
...Gauguin's Still Life with Apples, bought at auction last year by Greek Shipping Magnate Basil Peter Goulandris for the highest known price ($297,000) ever paid for a modern oil (TIME, June 24, 1957). ¶ Most of the little-seen Stephen C. Clark collection, including Van Gogh's Cafe de Nuit, El Greco's Saint Andrew, Rembrandt's Praying Pilgrim, Cezanne's Card Players...
...Thomas, that he commissioned Painter John Everett Millais to do a portrait of Edie in that same costume. Thomas paid a fancy $5,000, but used the finished canvas in the Graphic, made 600,000 color reproductions and sold them profitably across the Empire. A print of the portrait, known as Cherry Ripe because Edie was perched atop two sacks of cherries, became a sentimental adornment in every Victorian and Edwardian nursery...
...Perse never allows the hope of purification and renewal to gutter out. In Anabasis (1924), his best-known work, partly thanks to an excellent translation by T.S. Eliot, Perse tells of the seedtime of history. Man, the nomad, ranges out over the deserts of the East, "Ploughland of dream." He raises and then razes a city. In Winds (1946), great storms sweep across Europe, "leaving us in their wake, Men of straw in the year of straw." The restless hero finds himself in the West as Perse conjures up the discovery and dynamism of America-"the great expresses . . . with their...