Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ranger VII, took lunar pictures by rigging a movie camera to a telescope. Our moon chronicle continued to note many milestones: the U.S. Army Signal Corps in 1946, bouncing a radar beam off the moon; the early, unsuccessful lunar probe by the Air Force in 1958; the largely successful Pioneer probe of the same year; the Russian Lunik launchings in 1959, which suggested that the Soviets were beating the U.S. into space...
Orpheus had apparently looked backward. Kupka's reputation became that of a faceless pioneer, and he seemed not to care. Shortly before his death seven years ago, Kupka received a visit from the Museum of Modern Art's Alfred Barr Jr., who bought a batch of gouaches. "You have to thank her," said Kupka, pointing to his wife. "Without her, all of this would have been burned." Barr turned to Madame Kupka and kissed...
Bernays, a Cambridge resident and one of the country's pioneer counsels on public relations, said the Citizens Emergency Committee is pursuing two main courses in an effort to save the Drive...
That moment in 1910 when Vasily Kandinsky laid down his brush upon finishing a certain watercolor represents what is often regarded as the birth of abstract painting. Last week Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum put the pioneer abstractionist's modern-day reputation to a bold test: at the London art auction house of Sotheby & Co., the museum offered for sale no less than 50 of its 170 Kandinskys. Fears that such a mass sale might depress the market proved unwarranted. For it was painting from Kandinsky's early abstractionist period that brought the top money...
Pound was a pioneer of modern judicial reform. His address to the American Bar Association in 1906 entitled "The Causes of Popular Dissatisfaction with the Administration of Justice" catapulted him to national attention and sparked an era of judicial change...