Word: milepost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aircraft's acceleration (speeding up or slowing down).* The unchanging gyroscope line and the line of the plumb bob, which tells which way is down, form an angle that changes as the plane follows the earth's curved surface. This angle is the self-contained milepost by which Inertial Guidance determines and sets its course (see diagram...
...child's death was a bitter milepost in the life of an extraordinary woman-a life that began in a fashionable, upper-class Episcopal home in Philadelphia, ended in an English Roman Catholic convent, and may be crowned by beatification by the Roman Catholic Church. In The Case of Cornelia Connelly (Pantheon; $3.75), British Roman Catholic Author Juliana Wadham brings back to life a reverberating scandal that burst upon the U.S. and Britain in 1849, when the Catholic Church was struggling to re-establish itself in England...
...pleasant tribute came from Eugene L. Jalbert, associate justice of the superior court of Rhode Island, who states, "without fear of error," that he has been a TIME subscriber for 28 years. Writes the judge: "I can hardly believe that TIME is about to hit the 30-year milepost. Time flies because TIME is so companionable and so frequently engrossing. World events whirl so fast that the human eye would not be able to see them in their proper perspective or the human mind to analyze them accurately were it not that TIME, with its world-covering service, brings them...