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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ceiling." As an observer to this incident, I can report that it stood about 4 ft. high, and had a mushroomlike shape and a jellylike motion. The most fun came when ex-House President Tom Stix tried to maneuver it through his 30-in. door. With success almost in sight, the skin of the tightly squeezed object suddenly vanished, leaving the mountain of water standing for an instant in his doorway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 6, 1955 | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

...steeple jack, painting the spire of Memorial Church, is a rare sight in the Yard, not because the University allows its buildings to become run down, but because he is not a regular employee of the Department of Buildings and Grounds. With a year-round crew of 350 workers and a budget of over a million dollars to finance maintenance operations, the Department seldom has to contract outside help for any type of repair work on University property...

Author: By Lewis M. Steel, | Title: Buildings and Grounds: A Key for Every Door | 6/3/1955 | See Source »

...topflight U.S. old soldiers who has all but faded from public view in military retirement, General of the Army George Catlett Marshall, 74, sorrowfully came back into sight for a little while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, may 30, 1955 | 5/30/1955 | See Source »

...fight down the warnings from a sensory system gone haywire in weightlessness (much as a pilot learns to fly his airplane by what his instruments tell him even though this contradicts what his balance system tells him). Scientists are not yet clear what may happen without any touch or sight reference-for example, to a man inside a free-floating space ship, says Major Simons, "indications are that severe disorientation can occur." Nevertheless, he concludes, accumulating evidence indicates that man can learn to get used to the sense of floating or falling, and master his reactions sufficiently "to avoid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Weightless in Space | 5/30/1955 | See Source »

...people used to expect of it: joy. His work was sometimes tortured and anguished. It could be obscure-not obscure in a deliberate, cultish manner, but in the sense that an excess of color can produce darkness. But far the larger part of his verse is ebullient, drenched with sight and sound, rich in haunting new language fed from old and sparkling springs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Legend of Dylan Thomas | 5/30/1955 | See Source »

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