Word: sphere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...water pressure on the bathysphere was about 4,800 tons; the temperature 50°F within. Dr. Beebe ordered the sphere raised to the Freedom's deck, popped out with: "The scientific results are most satisfactory...
About 5 a. m. all is ready. Professor Piccard speaks briefly into a radio microphone. He salutes the crowd of 15.000. in which stands famed Dr. Hugo Eckener. He embraces his wife, his four eldest children. He follows Assistant Cosyns through the round manhole into the 7-ft. sphere. Cosyns immediately busies himself with his instruments, is not again seen by the crowd. But Professor Piccard thrusts his hairy head out the port, beckons to Mme Piccard. With a flourish he kisses her hand. He signals the ground-crew of 100 to cast off. Silently, easily the balloon rises. Professor...
When British publishers spoke of "The Great Eight" they meant the Graphic, Illustrated London News, Sphere, Sketch, Tatler, Bystander, Britannia & Eve, Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News-all published by Illustrated Newspapers Ltd. Last week the eight were reduced to-seven. Instead of their weekly copies of the Graphic, U. S. subscribers received instead notice that the famed 62-year-old paper was no more...
Early this year the Great Eight publishers elected to alter the Graphic because it resembled Sphere too closely. At the same time Editor William Comyns Beaumont of Bystander was considering quitting the Great Eight group to start a weekly of his own, an illustrated smartchart something like the New Yorker, to be named either The Londoner or St. James's. Instead the publishers let Editor Beaumont take charge of the Graphic, replacing Editor Alan John Bott...
...precisely this ultimate answer to the problem, as the author of this book. Not that Meyer was the spirit of an Italian condottiere in the body of a burgher of the humdrum Swiss nineteenth century, but that through overcompensation for his won sickly body and for the narrow sphere of his activity, he fied--from weakness, not from exuberance of strength--to the grandeur of the times and heroes he represents in his works...