Word: saucers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When all the painfully gathered data are digested and assembled, they will give a cross section of the Antarctic Continent, which is believed to be a great saucer of rock with a center near the Pole pressed down by the weight of ice that it carries. The thickness of the icecap will tell how much water is locked up in it, and how high the oceans stood during geological ages when the earth's Poles were ice-free. Perhaps the precious data brought back by the Fuchs expedition will explain the seams of coal in Antarctic mountains. Coal...
...Owner Hanisch rode up to his brand-new, three-acre, $3,000,000 combined office and plant in Pasadena. He saw a dazzling, 400-ft.-long, low, white-and-gold façade, faced with an airy grille of masonry, half given over to a carport spaced by hanging saucer-gardens. Black-bottomed reflecting pools reached under the cantilevered grille-wall to give the building a hovering effect. Five evenly spaced jet fountains splashed aerated water in the sun. The whole structure was set back a deep 150 ft. from the boulevard, and magnificently set off by San Francisco Landscapist...
...funny to cut," Lucy cruised to Havana with Guest Stars Ann Sothern and Rudy Vallee through 75 minutes of bumbling sight gags and strangulated cliches, e.g., a loveless Lucy's groan, "They weren't kidding when they said this ship was on its maiden voyage." Fortunately, saucer-eyed Lucille took her lumps with undiminished zest and even worked her putty face through one funny bit in which she and Desi, meeting for the first time in a Havana night club, swapped pitter-pats in a love duet on the bongo drums. The messages between them grew more frantic...
Rumor-mongering, almost as popular a sport as saucer-spotting, has given birth to a whisper that the Russians have launched a third satellite. Dr. Fred L. Whipple, however, said late last night that he had received no word of such a move and doubted the authenticity of the story...
...debunked the latest outgrowth of Sputnikery--"flying-sauceritis," but deferred to Dr. Donald H. Menzel, director of the Harvard College Observatory for an authoritative attack on the latest flying saucer scare...