Word: looking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Landsberg argued that his particles were bits of iron-rich material arriving from space with the meteors, but he could not prove it. For one thing, many of them were sharply wedge-shaped. They did not look as if they had received the terrific heating that meteorites usually...
...listeners to keep on the lookout for micro-meteorites. Large meteorites that hit the earth as flaming "fireballs" are believed to be part of the solar system. A few of the micro-meteorites floating gently down, said Whipple, may be the only specimens available of "interstellar solids." Geologists should look for micro-meteorites, Whipple said, in places like the Cretaceous chalk beds. Many astronomers believe that a planet blew up fairly recently; if so, there ought to be strata rich in its micrometeorite fragments to date the explosion...
With the return of the buyer's market, every U.S. manufacturer is cudgeling his brain−and the brains of designers−to make his product work better, feel better, look better and sell better than those of his rivals. This year U.S. business will spend some $500 million improving the way its products look. Of that sum, Raymond Loewy Associates expects to collect $3,000,000, the biggest gross ever. And Loewy expects that his personal income, which has averaged $200,000 for the past five years, will be boosted also...
...cars were too bulky, too laden with chromium "spinach and schmalz," and had too many blind spots for the driver. What he wanted was slimness, grace and better visibility. To his staff he mapped the grand strategy: "Weight is the enemy . . . Whatever saves weight saves cost. The car must look fast, whether in motion or stationary. I want it to look as if it were leaping forward; I want 'built-in' motion ... If it looks 'stopped' it is a dead pigeon ... I want one that looks alive as a leaping greyhound...
...world is filled with archaic objects−mailboxes which look like alarm boxes, banks which look like places to break out of rather than places to enter...