Word: shippings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...twilit night last week when eight bells sounded midnight aboard the British factory whaling ship Southern Venturer, breasting the sullen swells of the Antarctic Ocean, it meant "They're off!" The 1957 whaling season was officially open. All hands were ready for the first leviathan. Soon from over the leaden horizon came one of the mother ship's brood of smaller ships, towing a monstrous fin whale by its tail. Then began a mechanized dissection such as Melville did not imagine even in his most tortured dreams...
...hope in "time dilation." If a spaceship cruising toward a foreign star approaches the speed of light, its time, by relativity, will slow down. Its clocks will run slow by earth time, and the chemical processes that make its crew grow old will run slowly too. So when the ship reaches its destination thousands of light years away from the earth, the men on board will be almost as young as when they left home. If they could return to the earth, where time has been elapsing at its customary rate, they would notice certain changes. All their friends would...
...Duke, Wake Forest and North Carolina State, the Chapel Hill authorities sent for Frank Joseph McGuire, blue-eyed, wavy-haired son of a New York City cop. After five years as coach at St. John's University, McGuire had a readymade network of high-school coaches anxious to ship him the fanciest talent from the basketball breeding grounds around New York...
...believes, than if the patients had gone under the knife while acutely ill. In other cases, operations were avoided for patients either pregnant or suffering such ailments as bronchitis, heart disease or influenza. A prime indication for avoiding an operation, Surgeon Coldrey thinks, is when acute appendicitis develops aboard ship, "away from skilled surgery and adequate surgical surroundings." In fact, Surgeon Coldrey is now beginning to wonder whether it is even necessary to operate automatically in the first 24 hours of an attack...
Essentially, Fitzgerald is a reportorial poet: what he has felt does not come so easily, but what he has seen and experienced, he can transmit beautifully. There is the omnivorous movie screen ("A square of sucking brilliance in the dark"), a storm-tossed ship, the shock of an operation...