Word: originality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their predecessors, the new American eyes will be installed in high-altitude observatories at Climax, Colo. and on Sacramento Peak near High Rolls, N. Mex. Their cameras will soon be tracing the progress of the sun across the southwestern U.S., helping practical astronomers to study the origin of cosmic rays, to work out new methods of long-range weather prediction, perhaps to uncover atomic secrets from the sun's hot heart...
...origin is thought to be an old Irequois Indian word for breakfast food...
Doomed to be as persistent as the aura of myth surrounding the origin of the cry, "Rhinehart," is that Hearst expressed his art-collecting yen too early and too casually. In short, his gift to several professors of their visages etched on the bottom of chamber-pots proved that the Harvard of President Eliot did not have the hinterland sense of humor...
...densely populated Western Germany. But to ship their products west through 110 miles of Red territory, Berlin businessmen must get clearance from Russian trade inspectors. For weeks, the Russians have been holding up Berlin's westbound exports on the pretext that they must be accompanied by "certificates of origin" showing the sources of all raw materials used in their manufacture. Last week, with 12,000 tons ($17 million worth) of export goods piled up in West Berlin, the West met this new threat to Berlin's reviving economy with:1) a new airlift in reverse, 2) a trade...
Under contract to the West Berlin city government, four-engine U.S., British and French commercial aircraft began flying 100 tons of freight daily from Berlin to the west. Prospects were that unless the Russians dropped their demand for "certificates of origin," this "baby airlift" might be reinforced with military aircraft. At the same time, along the 500-mile curtain between East & West Germany, western border guards halted all freight, depriving the Soviet zone of a daily inflow of $238,000 worth of western goods, among them badly needed iron and steel products. Backed by the Allied High Commission, the Bonn...