Word: moone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just a moment or so, there was a pained silence from British spacemen. Then there were howls of indignation. Cried Secretary Leonard Carter of the British Interplanetary Society: "We believe the first flight to the moon will take place within the next 20 years and that Professor Woolley will live to see it ... Future Astronomers Royal will spend most of their time in space observatories and not in Hurstmonceux [home of the Royal Greenwich Observatory]." Added Interplanetary Society Council Member Kenneth Gatland: "Space travel is inevitable . . . Toward the end of the century we will get manned vehicles which will orbit...
Miro traces his imagery back to the Romanesque frescoes of his native Catalonia and the influence of his teacher Urged who left him with an obsession for the red circle, the moon, and the star. To these can be added other sources of inspiration. From Cubism, Art Nouveau, Surrcalism, he borrowed eclectically. But when the literary and formal sources were exhausted he returned to the materials themselves for suggestions. This is one of the late developments noticeable in the loan collection from the Pierre Matisse Gallery at the M.I.T. library...
Television emerged last week from its strenuous holiday celebration feeling combative enough to take on the U.S. Army, world Communism and a trip to the moon...
...took the week's honors with a dependable Disneyland feature called Man and the Moon. The first half of the show was an amiable, animated account of mankind's relations with the moon from the dawn of history until today. The second part took a leap into the future with Guided-Missile Expert Wernher von Braun putting on a sample flight to the moon and back with the complement of spaceships and space gear that must have had Captain Video gnawing his oxygen tube with envy...
TOWARD the end of 1955, an enterprising Long Island businessman laid claim to a crater on the moon and started selling lots at $1 an acre. In short order 9,000 eager customers plunked down their money on the outside chance that they might in fact some day ride a rocket to the moon. In its own small way the Great Lunar Sale symbolized the buoyant mood, confident strength, and bright future of the U.S. economy. For 1955 was a year when the U.S. took its first step toward the moon: it went to work to launch the first earth...