Word: marse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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But then the rainmaker appears; and after him, indeed, the deluge. As a symbol-as a transformer of lives and a spokesman for faith rather than mere facts-he seems out of the dead past of playwriting. As a romantic swashbuckler, given to fancy rainmaking and fancier lovemaking, he lacks...
The news from Mars-brief as it was−was good. Astronomer E. C. Slipher, of Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Ariz., recently returned from South Africa confident that Mars, which often suffers from drought, has had an unusually fruitful year. At any rate, the markings on Mars, which shrink and grow...
Dr. Slipher's visit to the Lamont-Hussey Observatory at Bloemfontein was a kind of dress rehearsal for September 1956, when Mars will come closer (only 35 million miles away) than at any time between 1941 and 1971. This year it came fairly close, but it was too low...
The week's second topflight show was Disneyland (Wed. 7:30 p.m.), which definitely marked the entry of the ABC network into the TV major leagues. Created by Walt Disney, this opening show was mostly an hour-long promise of good things to come. Disneyland will be divided into...
He was a national institution 80 years ago, widely acclaimed as the greatest preacher "since Paul preached on the Hill of Mars." Member of a famous evangelical family (Harriet Beecher Stowe, who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, was his sister), he had packed in the parishioners at Brooklyn'...