Word: sending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Middle Way. "Anything can happen," says a Western observer in Colombo. "We were bound to see a certain amount of assertion of independence in a country where until a few years ago citizens couldn't send telegrams, make long-distance calls, make out a bill of lading or hold a government job unless they spoke English. I just hope it doesn't get out of hand." The hand is Lawyer Banda's, fluttering excitedly out of his white robes as he says: "If we have peace in the world for the next 25 years, then I feel...
Like most U.S. legislators, Senators Richard Russell and Herman Talmadge of Georgia are conscientious and impersonal in giving out appointments to West Point, Annapolis and the Air Academy; to weed out the applicants, the Senators first send them to examinations given by the Civil Service Commission. Last week Russell and Talmadge decided to announce the results of this year's examination. For poor old Georgia, the results were a blow...
...rest, nearly 11 lbs., is the payload of instruments. These weights do not compare with Sputnik I (184 lbs. without its rocket) or Sputnik II (1,120 lbs. with dog and rocket), but the Explorer's instruments are so light and sophisticated that they may send as much information from space as their Russian rivals...
...military rockets-Atlas, Thor, etc.-now being tested in the U.S. Dr. Jack E. Froelich of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory says that the Army's Jupiter rocket (not to be confused with the Jupiter-C) could boost a much bigger satellite into an orbit, or even send it around the moon...
...Such exhibits throw off the whole public approach to art. This is 'Churchill art,' not just art. We have to defend art itself. Our interest, as a museum's should be, is in art, not history." Mused another leading museum director: "What we should do is send President Eisenhower's paintings to be exhibited at the Tate Gallery in London...