Word: onto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...astronomer-historian Dennis Rawlins. The jottings, found in an envelope dated April 5 and 6, 1909, by Peary's wife, note that the sun was rising steadily over a period of minutes. Had Peary been exactly at the North Pole, the sun would have remained stationary. Rawlins, who stumbled onto the secret in the Johns Hopkins library, believes Peary faked his accomplishment. Yet by instructing his wife to preserve the notes, Rawlins adds, "Peary himself took steps to ensure that the truth would survive...
...debate -- and perhaps even Dukakis' chance to inspire a late-inning rally to win the election -- may have been lost in those opening two minutes. George Bush strode onto the stage in Los Angeles determined to prove with an avuncular assortment of smiles, chuckles, winks and asides that he was the affable heir to Ronald Reagan. But even when Dukakis tried to compete in this smile-button sweepstakes, his eerie grin had the spontaneity of a Dale Carnegie student practicing before the mirror. Asked why he did not appear more "likable," Dukakis felt compelled to launch into a petty aside...
...Bush's long procession of buses pulling off Route 51 in central Illinois one afternoon at 3:30 and sweeping up to the Del Monte canning factory. The press corps (numbering some 120 now) dutifully takes its place not far from enormous piles of corn that are being dumped onto the vast concrete acreage, then pushed by special dozers toward the trench that will catch the corn on conveyer belts and carry it with a kind of clanking Modern Times idiot ingenuity up a ramp to be mechanically husked and then borne inside the maw of the factory...
...comparable to the space-shuttle program today. For sailors to travel the seas the lighthouses had to be there. Sources of light, methods of reflection, ways of dealing with offshore building conditions, were all popular and important subjects in scientific journals of the time. Even today, getting work materials onto Thacher Island isn't easy...
James A. Merrill, a contemporary American poet, gave a public reading of his work to an audience which filled the aisles and spilled onto the stage of Boylston Hall auditorium last night...