Word: solemnizations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fourth swing around the earth it came within range of the great horn antenna at Andover, which transmitted a TV test pattern. From high in space, the satellite sent the pattern back crisp and clear. As Telstar swept northeast, it came within range of Europe, and solemn pictures of two telephone company officials went up from Andover and down to stations in England and France. During later orbits color TV programs made the Atlantic hop. Except when the satellite was at the limit of its useful range, the pictures were excellent. Scientists reported that everything on board the satellite...
...modern intellectual. Arnold did not retreat into ivory-tower es-theticism. sour stoical isolation or epicurean sensuality. Instead, in the muscular Victorian fashion, he drowned his sorrow at his loss of faith by working to keep alive a critical spirit in an age of complacency. Though his purpose was solemn. Arnold often indulged in levity that disturbed the specific gravity of fellow Victorians-and led to a cartoon by irreverent Max Beerbohm (see cut') mocking them both. The cultural history of man, he wrote in Culture and Anarchy, his most famous essay, is an interplay between what Arnold called...
...Sheik Shakhbut took over in 1928 when his uncle was assassinated, after having earlier killed Shakhbut's father who, in turn, had come to power by killing his older brother. Shakhbut is said to have ruled so long and safely only because his own two brothers swore a solemn oath on the Koran not to murder...
...because it is too high, and Germany, because it is too low." To this, he stiffly adds that his Teutonopho-bia is a sturdy vintage '14-under Hitler it merely matured. It was the atrocities in Belgium during World War I that first moved Rubinstein to swear "a solemn and heavy oath" he would smash his fingers before playing again in Germany, and the oath grew heavier in World...
...says, as solemn as only six can be, "for the first time in my whole life, I'm in love. Her name is Cherry. And she loves...