Word: marvels
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Despite the continuing marvel of viewing the Titanic, the scientists never forgot they were touring what is, in effect, a mass grave. "You look at parts of the ship and you get flashbacks -- that Captain (Edward) Smith stood here and (Multimillionaire John Jacob) Astor was there, and that's where they were loading the women and children," Ballard told the Boston Herald. "You remember the staircase scene with people going up and down, and you remember the band playing...
Mass-produced automobiles put freedom of movement within the reach of nearly all Americans. Nothing, in theory, could be more democratic than that. But as I see and hear America now, I marvel at the apparent enslavement of a robust people to their machines. Nearly everyone must live within earshot of the snarling, thunderous din of traffic. People who motor to their places of employment must make allowances for the time they will spend sitting still in long lines and for the time they will have to devote to finding a place to put their automobile once they arrive...
Whether recalling the glories of the past or peering with lofty vision into the future, the men and women who have led America to the high frontier of space still marvel at what they have wrought and yearn restlessly to get on with what they are certain will one day come to be. In a mere quarter-century, the human race has broken its immemorial bond to the life-sustaining surroundings of the home planet. U.S. space pioneers have been able to orbit the globe, walk on the moon, ring the earth with communications satellites and send a machine nearly...
...wisdom of committing money to a replacement shuttle. When the Interagency Group on Space visited the White House last month to propose a new orbiter, Chief of Staff Donald Regan suggested that the shuttle might represent outmoded technology. Yet most aerospace experts still consider the shuttle an engineering marvel and the best available technology for a vehicle that can return from space and fly again. Nevertheless, some scientists consider a replacement unwise until the U.S. knows what it wants its shuttles to achieve...
Miller showed up at the doorstep of Marvel Comics in New York in 1979, a twenty-one-year-old kid carrying nothing but his portfolio and a vague smell of the Vermont woods. He was put to work drawing Daredevil, a relatively minor Marvel book chronicling the glitzy adventures of a blind superhero...