Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bottom of the Atlantic Ocean some 70 miles northeast of St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. Behind the graph paper is a yellow Nansen Bottle, used by oceanographers to take water samples, temperatures, and other deep-water measurements. The sailing ship is the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's pioneer research vessel, the Atlantis...
Southern Illinois University R. Buckminster Fuller, engineer, designer of the geodesic dome. . D.F.A. Jean Piccard, engineer, pioneer stratospheric balloonist Sc.D...
Citation: "The pioneer journalist of today's entertainment industry...
COLOR TV SETS will soon be put on sale by Admiral Corp., because President Ross D. Siragusa believes there is finally a good market for color. Other TV makers, except color pioneer RCA, are still skeptical, do not seem likely to join in production. Admiral hopes to overcome consumer color-TV resistance by offering one-year guarantee on all parts, v. usual 90-day warranty...
Jones also called upon the new alumnae to help pioneer "in the solution of the human, intellectual, and moral problems of the over-developed society, notably our own." This, he stated, is the "task of American leadership" in the contemporary "Post-Modern...