Word: rimmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lincoln points with particular pride to the cars' safety features. The "deep-dish" steering wheel and its spokes-all flexible -are shaped like a bowl, with the end of the steering post set deep inside. In a crash, the driver would hit the flexible rim instead of the rigid post. Other safety items: door latches designed so as not to spring open on impact, a glareless instrument panel, seat belts (optional), a shatter-resistant rear-view mirror...
...third year in a row, French Bicyclist Louison Bobet made the long grind of the Tour de France (TIME, Aug. 9, 1954), pedaled for 22 days through Belgium, Switzerland, Germany and around the rim of France, covered more than 2,700 miles and came home first to Paris' Parc-des-Princes stadium. Just 4 min. 52 sec. behind: Belgium's Jean Brankart...
Along Lake Huron's rocky northern rim, where the Canadian Pacific railroad and the Trans-Canada Highway skirt the jack pine forest, blue smoke from smoldering brush fires hangs lazily in the hot, still air. In a raw new clearing the bright steel of a mine headframe cuts an angular pattern against the sky. From the smooth blacktop highway trucks laden with lumber and machinery waddle off toward mine sites deep in the bush. A scattered army of engineers, diamond drillers, airplane pilots, and hardrock miners is turning 900 square miles of lake-pocked wilderness into a billion-dollar...
...legacy of notes and scribblings still to be tested by men and machines. The search for it made the last part of his voyage the loneliest part of all. Albert Einstein, who often said he could not accept the doctrine of immortality of the soul, traveled the rim of mystery and at times, he admitted, it made him feel close to God. "I assert," he once said, "that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force . . . My religion consists of a humble admiration for the illimitable superior spirit who reveals Himself in the slight details...
...after Hiroshima, men began speculating on a future when two or more nations would be able to blow each other up. The appalling prospect formed a rim on the horizon; imagination would not penetrate beyond it. But when horizons are closely approached they always disclose new horizons farther...