Word: space
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Miss Churchman stated that the group at yesterday's meeting had tentatively decided to allow girls living off-campus to eat where they wish "as far as dining space permits...
Neither of these contentions, whether true or not, is the central issue in the matter. More important is that forty acres of anything--whether factory or dormitory--would take up a lot of space in the Basin, considerably lessening its beauty and value as a recreational facility...
...earth is generally considered a slightly flattened sphere, its flatness at the poles resulting from plastic response to its spinning motion. Last week Dr. John A. O'Keefe, assistant director of the Theoretical Division of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, gave evidence before the American Physical Society that the earth is very slightly pear shaped. If its continents are evened out and its spin-flattening allowed for, it has a faint bulge around the North Pole, a faint depression around the South Pole, and a depressed ring in the north mid-latitudes (see diagram...
...Space. One day in 1954, a two-paragraph item in the San Francisco Chronicle caught Alec Cushing's eye. Reno had bid for the Olympic Games. Cushing had only one chair lift at Squaw then, but he decided to apply too. "I had no more interest in getting the games than the man in the moon," he admits. "It was just a way of getting some newspaper space." The space he got in West Coast papers brought a flood of encouraging letters, made up Cushing's mind: "When I got letters from all those people saying what...
...good half of the tales in A Medicine for Melancholy are inner-directed rather than outer-space bound. The Headpiece is a typical Bradbury skin-prickler. Andrew Lemon is a middle-aged apartment dweller, thoroughly undistinguished except for the hole in his head, the result of a hammer blow from his exwife. Lemon is hopelessly in love with a pert young thing down the hall, but she is cool to him, and he blames his strange deformity. One day he knocks at her door proudly decked in a toupee. Tonelessly, the girl says, "I can still see the hole...