Word: seene
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Airman series, circa 1927, or the Wills Sainte Claire Gray Goose, last seen in 1928. Your advance notices of what 1958 has in store doom me to continuing disappointment...
...struck watchers below had just seen military history made. For the first time, a nuclear-armed rocket had been fired from an airplane, and that event, one morning last week, opened up what the Air Force called "a new dimension" in the nation's defense against enemy bombers. The new-dimension rocket was the Air Force's MB-1, or Genie (formerly dubbed Ding Dong and High Card), manufactured by Douglas Aircraft Co. The Genie's nuclear punch, said an Air Force spokesman, is "well below nominal"-nominal meaning, in the strange new vocabulary of the Atomic...
...Provincetown, Mass., which thought it had seen its great days when Eugene O'Neill's players held forth at the Provincetown Playhouse and the Beachcombers' Club was packed with hairy-chested writers, has staged a postwar cultural comeback, is now an oasis of abstract painters, most of them clustered around Manhattan Mentor Hans Hofmann, 75, whose summer class this year numbers loo-odd. Talk of the town: a lighthearted deviation from orthodoxy by one of the founders of abstract expressionism, Robert Motherwell, who is showing 32 line drawings of a nude model. ¶ East Hampton, Long Island...
...which 2,600 set owners were quizzed within 30 minutes of the time five TV programs (Zane Grey Theater, Tennessee Ernie Ford Show, G.E. Theater, Ford Theater, DuPont Cavalcade) went off the air. The first jolt was the discovery that only 10.3% of the sample (270 people) had seen the shows in question. The next was the discovery that fully 31% of the viewers promptly left the room when the announcer began speaking of the product. Surprisingly, women proved more fidgety than men and far more likely (24% to 18%) to leave the room or switch to other channels even...
...down in the semblance of a small cloud. Actually, at the time, Hitler's Chiefs of Staff were toying with a "War Crocodile"-a huge reinforced-concrete tank designed to crawl across the Channel on the sea floor. The public was officially warned against strange gossamer-like threads seen floating in the air. They turned out not to be a secret weapon but something to do with the mating of spiders...