Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Escape. To escape from the jealous clutch of the earth's gravitation, a departing object must move faster than any bullet ever fired from any gun. Escape velocity is given theoretically as about 25,000 m.p.h.-the speed that an object would reach if it fell from an infinite distance to the earth's surface under the exclusive influence of the earth's gravitation. Since this speed is impossible in the earth's dense lower atmosphere, a rocket headed into space must start slowly and speed up to escape velocity only after it has climbed above...
...nothing of modern vital statistics; the average life expectancy of an Israelite baby in David's kingdom was probably no more than 30 years. Not until the individual had weathered all the hazards of gestation, birth, childhood illnesses, diseases such as tuberculosis and pneumonia could he expect to reach threescore...
Author Berton's book is jammed with the tragic stories of tenderfeet who tried to reach the golden creeks by boat, over the dread mountain passes and even over a sure-death glacier route. Even those who found great wealth often lost it, to gamblers, business crooks, the girls, or over the bars. Carmack died respectably, leaving his second wife, a former brothel-keeper, a fortune. But Lucky Swede Anderson, divorced by his dance-hall girl, died pushing a wheelbarrow in a sawmill for $3.25 a day. Lucky always denied that he ever had a million: "The most...
...flight to the angelic spheres. But the Shiraz authorities, who disapproved of high-flown ideas, dressed up a beautiful dancer to look like an angel and planted her on the roof of the student's house, where he studied the skies. By next morning the happy student had reached two important conclusions: that angelic conduct is by no means so spiritual as most people imagine, and that the surest way to reach the heights of angelic bliss is to keep strictly down to earth...
...Titan is a two-stage missile, resembling a Brobdingnagian rifle cartridge. About 130 seconds up-where Atlas sloughs off its twin booster engines -Titan sheds its first stage, 53 ft. of 10-ft.-thick shell and both booster engines. Thus unburdened, the 37-ft. second stage is expected to reach out beyond 9,500 statute miles-3,000 miles farther than Atlas-to deliver a massive warhead weighing better than three tons...