Word: rim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wilson Observatory staff, on which he served from 1914 to 1921. "During this period," Shapley recalls, "I developed my ideas for measuring the vast distance of the Universe." His theory prompted fellow astronomers to call him a "modern Copernicus" for the discovery that the sun is at the rim of the Milky Way Galaxy and not near the center. "I've been attacked for lots of reasons," Shapley remarks, "but the charges against my basic theories are still without good grounds...
...There were other readings. Sir Winston Churchill's peroration at the Lord Mayor's banquet in London expressed hope that "we might even find ourselves in a few years moving along a broad, smooth causeway of peace and plenty instead of roaming and peering around on the rim of hell." And the Soviet radio celebrated the 21st anniversary of U.S. diplomatic recognition of Soviet Russia by quoting George Washington: "Nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations . . . should be excluded...
...village of Amecameca the Indians waited, unconvinced. One evening last week, an exhausted young man staggered into a climbers' base camp with word that an avalanche had overtaken a party of five men and three women under the crater's rim. He had heard the thunder of the slide, then screams in the cloud haze that enveloped the peak. Groping through the darkness and swirling snow, he found a youth and a girl, half buried and moaning with pain. Their companions were lost somewhere in the snow...
Tired, hot and irritable, the pilgrims stopped off for a two-day rest at the ancient beauty spot of Hangchow, where pagodas rim lovely West Lake, in which gold carp come at a visitor's clap. Swimming in a pool in the grounds of a former Buddhist temple, gliding over the lake, the delegation seemed oblivious of the landing craft they had seen assembled along Shanghai's Whangpoo River, and of the Peking radio's loud declaration that China intended to liberate Formosa forthwith-and would "brook no U.S. occupation, no U.N. trusteeship, no neutralization...
...Dunlop, Sir Eric and Sir George swung the ax ruthlessly, began to diversify. They bought more wheel and rim plants, started making all kinds of rubber goods, from flooring to hot water bottles, and took over Charles Macintosh & Co., of raincoat fame. In 1928 Sir George hired his son, George Beharrell. who rose to a directorship...