Word: limitless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Curtiss-Wright Corporation, one of America's largest manufacturers of airplane equipment, sums up the opportunities for a young engineer in its 1953 brochure: "For the aeronautical research worker and engineer, there is an evergrowing challenge to contribute to the progress of a field firmly established, yet limitless in potentialities. Working daily at the threshhold of the unknown will bring the engineer into many closely related fields. An aircraft increase in size and speed, the role of the engineer and research worker becomes even more important...
...window. At this point the lights dim, and a wise man (Robert Simon) appears. "Let us reverse this fate and make things turn back," he says. The husband jumps back in the window, and the action shifts into reverse, ending as it began. Obviously, the situation has almost limitless potentialities, most of which were realized in the performance. In the exposition, for instance, the wife at one point pours some coffee and drinks it. In the recapitulation, she drinks it again, then nochalantly pours it back into the coffee pot. The singers were on key, articulate, and appropriately hammy...
...current fare offered the American televiewer testifies to the low opinion the ad man holds of the nation's mind. But this view is not held by educators, who unanimously feel that television offers an educational medium with seemingly limitless potentialities. No sponsors will buy "educational" TV; the networks must give it away, and in giving they lose valuable profits. Since commercial stations are unwilling to take the risks, the solution is non-commercial television with the avowed purpose of airing only material with the highest quality...
Eyuboglu works best between midnight and 3 a.m.-"almost painting in my sleep." Lately he has busied himself with a variety of mediums: temperas, mosaics, and wood blocks for printing curtains and handkerchiefs. "The possibilities are limitless," he murmurs, absently dabbling a design in his coffee saucer. Business people are beginning to see the possibilities in Eyuboglu himself; negotiations are under way for a show of his art in Philadelphia, and the new Hilton Hotel being built in Istanbul will be decorated with Eyuboglu curtains...
...Malaya is the jungle. "The 'thing that astonished me most," writes Colonel F. Spencer . Chapman, an Englishman who spent three years there in World War II behind the Japanese lines, "was the absolute straightness, the perfect symmetry of the tree trunks, like the pillars of a dark and limitless cathedral. The ground itself was covered with a thick carpet of dead leaves and seedling trees. There was practically no earth visible, and certainly no grass or flowers. Up to a height of ten feet or so, a dense undergrowth of young trees and palms, but out of this wavy...