Word: passageway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addition to their Apollo command ship, which will remain docked with Skylab, there are four major sections of the cluster: 1) the 22-ft.-wide Orbital Workshop, which contains the astronauts' main living and working quarters; 2) the smaller Multiple Docking Adaptor, which serves as part of the passageway between the Orbital Workshop and the Apollo command ship and contains the complex control panel for Skylab's telescope; 3) the Apollo Telescope Mount, which is the world's first manned solar observatory in earth orbit and contains eight separate telescopes for different types of astronomical observations...
...body will be like in ten years, but I know that it is an assemblage of diverse and gifted men and women now. I would be sorry if, in our anxiety for the future, for medical school or the great unknown, we overlooked that. Of course, Harvard is a passageway. Every place is. But it is also a stopping place. Dietrich Bonhoeffer spent a little more than half the equivalent of an undergraduate four year term in a Nazi prison before he was murdered. Unlike the fictitious prisoners in Pickwick Papers, his experience taught him the value of time...
...second try and were firmly joined. Taking their rocks, films and other paraphernalia with them, Cernan and Schmitt climbed through the connecting tunnel and rejoined Evans; the moonwalkers had so much dust on them that Evans told them jokingly that he would make them sleep in the passageway. Its job done, Challenger was sent crashing into the moon, bringing the total cost of equipment left on the moon during the Apollo program-including the still operative scientific observatories-to $517 million. The craft landed only nine miles from the valley it had just left. Two days later, on America...
...capped his speech by admonishing students to see college as more than just a passageway to the future. He said Harvard should be one of the happiest and most valuable periods of our lives" and encouraged the class of 1976 to "have a wonderful four years...
Middlesex Superior Court Judge Frank W. Tomasello last week issued a restraining order to halt the construction of the fence until a judicial ruling is made on the right of usage of the passageway...