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Word: marse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Not content with such heresy, Astronomer Woolley went on to pooh-pooh flying saucers: "I was awakened about 3 a.m. by the R.A.F. and asked about an object 3,000 feet due west. I hopped out of bed and had a look. I should have said, 'Take off, boys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Utter Bilge? | 1/16/1956 | See Source »

But Astronomer Woolley had also given courage to other conservatives. Said the Spectator's Columnist "Pharos": "I wish the Astronomer Royal had gone a little further and told them to take up model yachting instead. That is a much prettier pastime than dreaming about going to Mars with a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Utter Bilge? | 1/16/1956 | See Source »

A juiceless book is not the only culprit. The music is chiefly loud, and at their best Robert Alton's dances are just conventionally lively. Actress Channing is only intermittently victorious. She has her real moments, with her round, seemingly lidless eyes or her rumbling subway of a voice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Nov. 21, 1955 | 11/21/1955 | See Source »

Monstrous Analysis. Quarles is well aware that flying-saucer cultists are not easily discouraged. They might still claim that saucer-shaped aircraft built on earth are proof that extraterrestrial flying saucers, manned by little men from Venus (or Mars), have been infesting the atmosphere. So Quarles released simultaneously a massive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Saucer Blue Book | 11/7/1955 | See Source »

(which might conceivably be novel aircraft from a foreign country or spaceships from Mars), the Air Force scientists tried to derive from them some "flying-saucer model." They failed. All the unknowns that had been described in fair detail proved to be different.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Saucer Blue Book | 11/7/1955 | See Source »

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