Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over-the-road speed of better than 30 m.p.h. Some new items already in the engineers' toolbox: aluminum landing mats, plastic road surfaces (called "membranes"), and moisture-proof plastic maps that can be wadded up and tucked into a shirt pocket and still retain their original shape...
...batteries might last long enough for it to transmit pictures of the same scenes at regular intervals for several days. Then, as the sun gradually moved through its zenith toward the lunar horizon, ridges and rocks would cast changing shadows that would reveal more information about their size and shape. But at week's end the Russians announced that they had completed Luna 9's program, leading the scientists to speculate that its batteries had failed-perhaps because its solar cells had been damaged...
However, Hinman did not make his device into a straitjacket. The contours of his canvases do not always match the contours of his hard-edged colors. In Cloud No. 2, for instance, a yellow, earlike shape embraces but does not parallel the straight ridge of white, thus throwing into shadows and visual doubts where a shape ends or bends...
...Meredith Wilson, 56, Minnesota. A warm man with a dry humor and an analytic mind, he is an ideal moderator who manages to shape meetings toward his own preconceived intent, yet with a democratic touch. He is chairman of the Institute of International Education and National Advisory Council on Education of Disadvantaged Children. He is a former history professor who was a Ford Foundation official and president of the University of Oregon before going to Minnesota...
...true that the business of putting children into school (which mothers usually handle), or moving up here, take "precedence over investigating thoroughly Harvard's academic opportunities." The latter both take place well before Harvard's school year begins. As Ardery presumably knows, the selection of courses does not take shape until they have been sampled during the first few weeks of the term...