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Word: planet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...here we have our Sputnik No secret: the newborn planet Is modest about its size, But this symbol of intellect and light Is made by us, and not by the God Of the Old Testament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Not by God | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

...think it is only natural for Russians to be first on the moon. After all, they have more reasons to seek refuge from this planet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 28, 1957 | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

...properly equipped satellite could take pictures of the earth or the sun and transmit them to the ground by some sort of TV or telephoto process. Such data, in the hands of the world's scientists, would give the human species a much better understanding of its home planet, and the ocean of space around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: THE RACE INTO SPACE | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

...Whether his eye is fixed on a plant or a planet, a chemical retort or a dialectical retort to Communist propaganda, every Jesuit everywhere owes his unswerving obedience to his tactful, affable and unassuming Superior General. Belgian-born Jesuit Janssens wryly credits his painstaking, lifelong concern for accuracy to the fact that his father was a tax collector. A precocious youngster, young Janssens was first in his class at school every year from the age of nine through 15, won a gold medal and the title primus perpetuus, i.e., everlasting first. At 17, he entered the Society of Jesus, took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Army in Black | 9/16/1957 | See Source »

Once aboard, the saucermen (blond hair, green eyes, yellowish shoes) took the professor for a rise. When the saucer once vibrated sharply, one of his hosts reassured him telepathically: "Have no fear. We are leaving the atmosphere of your planet." An hour later the saucer landed back on the beach. Guimaraes was politely deposited in a daze, and his new acquaintances whirled away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cups or Saucers? | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

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