Word: pluto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soon we will be able to travel to Mars, to Pluto, to Venus," a professor told his Russian students. "Are there any questions?" A student in the back of the class raised his hand. ''When," he asked, "can we travel to Vienna...
Interstellar Escape. Full escape from the gravitational pull of the sun would be tougher. Starting from the earth's surface, a ship would need 36,800 m.p.h. Soaring past Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, it would reach the outer limits of the solar system with almost no speed left. Then, like a chip on a glassy lake, it could drift for millions of years before it approached the nearest star, Proxima Centauri, which is 25 trillion miles away from the sun. Man's spaceships can probably reach interstellar escape velocity in a generation, but there will...
Some of the sources of Orsini's inspiration can be guessed at. The ogre seems borrowed from the Mouth of Hell leading to Pluto's cave, as illustrated in medieval manuscripts on Ovid. The curious words ringing the ogre's mouth-Lasciate Ogni Pensiero Voi Que Entrate (Abandon all thought, ye who enter)-refer to the cup of forgetfulness ancient Greeks thought was drunk before crossing the river Lethe. The dragon-fighting lions (probably an oblique reference to political feuds) derived from a sketch by Leonardo da Vinci. The elephant with castle was a symbol used...
...star that rotates slowly, says Dr. Struve, is likely to have a brood of planets. Since the whole galaxy contains about 100 billion stars, Dr. Struve calculates that it has 10 billion slow-spinning stars with planets revolving around them. The sun has eight planets (not counting Pluto), but if the average star with planets has only five, there must be 50 billion planets in the galaxy...
Male Support: Thomas Beveridge, as Second Chaplain in Mandelbaum's "The Four Chaplains" (Opera Guild); Malcolm Ticknor, as Aristeus-Pluto in "Orpheus...