Word: lows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fight free of the earth, the space navigator must reach a speed called escape velocity. Figured at the surface of the earth, this is 25,000 m.p.h. But rockets do not start suddenly. They accelerate gradually, keeping their speed fairly low while still in the atmosphere, then spurting quickly. If a rocket is moving 24,000 m.p.h. when it is 300 miles above the surface, it will escape from the earth's gravitation. When the Russian Lunik launchers, watching their bird with Doppler (speed-measuring) radios, saw it pass the critical speed, they knew it would never return...
...pockmarked long ago by large meteors, and it may have been built up entirely by such accretion. But he does not think that the smooth, dark areas that are called maria (seas), because early astronomers thought they were exactly that, are filled with lava. He thinks that they are low places full of fine dust that was removed by a kind of erosion from the moon's highlands. In some places it may be more than a mile deep...
...earth's mountains. He thinks that the chief eroding agent is high-energy radiation from the sun helped by cosmic rays and meteorites. They slowly chewed a flour-fine dust from the moon's exposed rocks and kept it stirred up so that it gradually flowed into low places like the interiors of old craters and the maria...
...term tossed off opinions ("It's important that someone raise some hell with philosophy") as John D. Rockefeller Sr. passed out dimes. He ran his college well, but had to give up teaching as administrative duties piled up. Recently Taylor's best-reported diversion has been a low-comedy wrangle with the Westchester County American Legion, to whom Sarah Lawrence's progressive-education scheme of life (no formal majors, no grades) smells of left-wingery. Determined to return to a scholar's life, he wrote: "The steadily increasing burden of responsibility placed upon the American college...
Wandering Scholars. At school, students miss no meals, although they may eat plain Bratwurst or Spätzle. Plainness in food is more than made up for by the low cost of the six months abroad. The university charges only about $1,000-the amount it collects for a boarding semester at Stanford-for plane fare to Germany, board, room and tuition. Thoughtfully, Stanford officials made no provision for return flights to the U.S. Best evidence of Landgut Burg's success: the university is seriously considering a similar outpost in Florence, has in the back of its mind...