Word: rim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME bureaus which rim the Iron Curtain are, of course, a major source of news from that half of the world which is cloistered by Communist sentries. Eric Gibbs, chief of our bureau at Bonn, Germany, is now starting back after a four-week visit in New York, in which he described some of the new skills in reportage required to out such an assignment...
Long and lean, a single white spire fights its way through the trees in Hanover. New Hampshire, to tell the world that a college shivers beneath it. Visitors descending from the rim of hills need only follow this barren beacon to find the cloisters that are Dartmouth, and once there, to help them understand the uniqueness of the country's loneliest college...
Algren is depressed at what he sees in his Chicago: "Out of the Twisted Twenties flowered the promise of Chicago as a homeland and heartland of an American renaissance...Thirty years later we stand on the rim of a cultural Sahara...The giants cannot come again." And he jams a good deal of depression into this short work...
...Western diplomat declared last week in Washington that it was of the utmost importance for observers of the current international situation to study two danger spots in the world--Korea and Germany--side by side. Korea is on the eastern rim of the Communist land mass; Germany on the western. It is inconceivable, he said, that events in the two places are unrelated...
...exact spot where a buried meteorite should be. The northern rim of the crater is higher than the others, so the meteorite probably slanted down from the south, burying itself under the granite slightly to the north of the crater. This evidence, added to the shape of the lake and the "ripples" in the granite around it, convinces Dr. Meen that the crater is meteoric. If it is, it is the largest interplanetary shell hole (more than two miles across) that anyone has yet discovered on the earth's surface...