Word: oval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the equator, and the rocket will be fired toward the southeast to take advantage of the earth's rotation. Instead of following a true circle, which would keep it at a single level in the earth's high atmosphere, the satellite will move in an ellipse (oval), rising to 800 miles altitude, then descending to 200 miles. It will pass around the earth every 90 minutes, and since the earth will be turning beneath it, the satellite will pass over different areas during each circuit. It will eventually cover all parts of the earth between...
...into a state of healthful exhaustion. Until recently, he got up at 4:45 a.m. every weekday, tossed off a lemonade and studied an hour for a correspondence-course physical-education degree. Then he woke his wife Beverly, hustled her into running togs and took her off to Malvern Oval for some companionable jogging and wind sprints. After breakfast, Dave hit the books again before he caught a train to his $14.50-a-week job as a delivery boy. Now Dave is a $47-a-week milkman, and he combines his work with his training. He trots around...
...Dash. To keep track of the seasons, the calendar makers had to have records, and this meant a system of written numbers. Of all these early systems, the most efficient was that of the Mayans, who used only three symbols-a dot (1), a dash (5), and an oval that could multiply each number 20 times. Meanwhile, other civilizations had other inventions. The Egyptians had to find ways to make a right angle so that the base of each pyramid would be an absolute square; they also had to find out how to measure land for taxes. Thus emerged their...
Above the Water. To depict the dramatic sinking of the Dorchester Nivola designed a huge 22-ft.-by-24-ft. hull of white, reinforced concrete, balanced it over a broad fountain basin which flows inward with a whirlpool motion to a small central oval. For the four 6-ft.-tall sandcast plaques, set just above the water to memorialize the four chaplains, Nivola also went back to an early inspiration, the semi-abstract holiday bread loaves made by Sardinian women. For his motifs Nivola picked four common aspirations: the clasped hands of prayer, conflict of good and evil, family unity...
...last week the doors of the old White House conference room swung open and 50 reporters walked in, some grabbing chairs, the others lining up against the walls. At a great oval table before them sat Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty, his spectacles glinting in the bright light, surrounded by five unfamiliar-looking men, whom he introduced as distinguished scientists. They were calm, poised, at ease; a few of the reporters licked their pencils nervously as Hagerty began to speak...