Word: objections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other hand, the film has a certain unity of expression that the discrete quality of language--subject, verb, object--denies to the novel. And furthermore, language cannot of course convey non-verbal experience. There are times when a picture is worth ten thousand words...
...last night. Fred L. Whipple was more than usually restrained as he commented at the Garden St. headquarters of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory that the second Russian launching probably required no greater effort than the first. Whipple speculated, as have most other American scientists, that the 1,120-pound object speeding around the earth is the third-stage of the rocket rather than a spherical satellite...
Whipple, again basing his predictions on announcements from Radio Moscow and from the Associated Press, indicated that the object's orbit might be turned in such a way that it would be visible at twilight this evening. Whipple said that it would be at least a few more days before it would be "a morning object." Moscow has announced that the satellite is broadcasting, as did the first one, on 20 and 40 megacycles alternately...
...Russians have really put 184.3 lbs. on an orbit, they can probably hit the moon with a lighter object. The speed of the Sputnik, 18,000 m.p.h., is not a great deal less than the speed (about 25,000 m.p.h.) needed to move from an orbit to the moon. If a good part of its weight is invested in additional fuel, the remainder should reach the moon without much trouble. The Russians are rumored to be scheduling a shot at the moon for Nov. 7, and they may try to mark its bright face with a visible splash...
After the object gets through the U.S. Customs' examination on Monday, Dr. A. S. Romer, Director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, which will be the egg's resting place, will examine it and release information on its exact size and paleological significance...