Word: lesson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problems all around us on earth, why should we start asking new questions and seeking out new problems in space? Scientific research, of course, has never been amenable to rigorous cost accounting in advance. Nor, for that matter, has exploration of any sort. But if we have learned one lesson, it is that research and exploration have a remarkable way of paying off -quite apart from the fact that they demonstrate that man is alive and insatiably curious. And we all feel richer for knowing what explorers and scientists have learned about the universe...
...Lesson No. 2. Linda parried as best she could, sarcastically yawned that "all this is very curious, very original. I'm only sorry I missed it all. I was fast asleep." The go-home campaign was unnecessary anyway, she added: "I am only here because another man has my passport...
Absence Minded. In Miranda de Ebro, Spain, the school principal ordered the school doors closed at 9 a.m. as a disciplinary lesson to late students, gave up the project when 50% of the teachers were locked...
...broken into noncommissioned officers' quarters, pocketed a traveling clock, cigarette lighter, flashlight, two PX ration books, $6 worth of scrip. He was frog-marched to the guardroom, where a group of U.S. officers and enlisted men, irked by 20 burglaries in six weeks, decided to teach Kim a lesson...
Manhattan architects, who swarmed to the museum's exhibit, came away impressed but perplexed. What lesson did Gaudi's flowering masonry buildings teach in the age of steel beams and plate glass? Guggenheim Museum Director James Johnson Sweeney thought he knew part of the answer. Said he at the museum's standing-room-only symposium: "Gaudi points the way not through a restatement of Gaudi, but by restatement of his method of approach. He has brought home the value of architecture as sculpture." Critic Henry-Russell Hitchcock, who with Architect Philip Johnson kicked...