Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, in cloudy New England, Harvard University dedicated a new radio telescope at the Agassiz Station of the Harvard Observatory, 25 miles west of Cambridge. The telescope's 60-ft. "dish" antenna is steerable (it points anywhere) and is specially designed to pick up 21-cm. radio waves from the great clouds of hydrogen that clutter the universe...
...stories are competently written, but none of the authors seem to have any more pressing concern than telling a sensual tale, which means that the reader can put down the issue on any particular sentence without feeling the slightest regret, but that, on the other hand, he may pick it up again without severe foreboding...
...those leading Texans, House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson. And Rayburn's fumble in bringing the farm-bill veto to a House' vote last week undermined what had seemed to be the party's most promising issue. Even if the Democrats pick up farm votes, there is still the civil-rights issue-on which congressional Democrats are miles apart-ready to blow things sky high. One strong hint that the Democrats may be losing the non-South Negro vote, which could be pivotal in at least nine states, came last fortnight when N.A.A.C.P...
...Tiergarten. By last week West Berlin housing authorities had put their stamp of approval on 56 plans, already had six under construction. The new apartment city promises to become one of the world's most handsome showcases of what's new in modern low-cost architecture. Pick of the new buildings: ¶ From France, Le Corbusier, designer of Marseille's Radiant City (TIME, Feb. 2, 1948 et seq.) and India's new city of Chandigarh (TIME, June 8, 1953), submitted the most controversial project of all. In an effort to win over Europe's most...
...early to tell, of course, but already there are indications that things will pick up next fall right where they now leave off. The Eliot House Drama Group, for example, last week announced a full slate of lower-case titles for its 1956-57 productions and completed casting for two of them. In time such farsighted acts may revolutionize the nature of over-the-summer planning at the College. Presumably, a late-April commitment to play Oedipus in October is more binding than an intention to take Humanities 2, as indicated on a preliminary study card...