Word: rim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Workers recruited in the U.S. and taken to Greenland to build the base at Thule (on the island's far northwestern rim, some 650 miles above the Arctic Circle) were paid $3,000,000 in wages before they reached the site...
...Force spokesman said, strange things were seen in the night sky over North Korea. The tail gunner and fire-control man of a B-29 over Wonsan saw a disk-shaped object that seemed to fly with a revolving motion. It was orange in color, and around its rim were small, bluish flames. For five minutes it flew along with the bomber at 200 m.p.h. Then it disappeared...
...there for two hours, rockin. As we were leaving, the dapper man with the horned-rim glassed waved goodbye. "You'll float all the way home," he said. HERBERT S. MEYERS
...Science has no center from which it grows . . . Science is merely a rim, and only from this rim does it continually grow. Man has no longer anything to do with this science, except to watch it and to write an account of the mingling of knowledge and of its growth...
Federated hopes to bring the "big city" department store to smaller towns. Each Fedway store will be air-conditioned, windowless (except for show windows), carry everything from diapers to home freezers, have customer charge accounts, free delivery, parking space. Stockrooms will be built around the rim of the modernistic stores, so that clerks can give faster service to customers and refill their supplies themselves. For Federated, the stores mark two big changes. Up till now, it has expanded only by buying other stores. In its nine department stores and 16 branches, whose sales last year totaled $424 million, each store...