Word: sphere
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days of the late Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, the "banzais" of sword-shaking Japanese drowned out their more intelligent countrymen. The world of the '305 and the '405 had no chance to learn that modern Japan has also produced a fair quota of writers, thinkers and even humorists. Last month the work of one of them, a 2O-year-old novelette called Kappa, was first published in English translation. To American readers, Ryunosuke Akutagawa's satire seemed almost too good to have been written by a Japanese...
...steel sphere and its contents will be heavy enough to sink. To keep it from sinking right to the bottom of the sea and staying there, it will be suspended from streamlined aluminum containers filled with aviation gasoline, which is considerably lighter than water and almost incompressible. Fully loaded, the bathyscaphe will weigh about 40 tons. Because the winches of the mother ship cannot support this weight, the gasoline and half the ballast must be added after the bathyscaphe is in the Water...
...this democracy can only stand fast by the grace of freedom, the safeguard for world peace. Therefore, TIME continually illuminates (as does the majority of the outstanding American press) the inroads being made by Communism on this human right. TIME's tone toward Soviet Russia and her sphere of influence is now ironic, now reserved, now protesting, but not well wishing. Just as critical a stand is taken against the remaining utterances of fascism in Spain, Portugal, Argentina, Germany and America (the Ku Klux Klan, etc.). TIME stands for religious freedom...
Outside In. Duran Navarro (a lawyer by profession) arrived at his theory by a process of elimination. If the earth's inhabitants live on the outside of a spinning sphere (as is popularly supposed), why, he reasoned, doesn't everything fly off into outer space? (Navarro takes no stock at all in centripetal force...
...everything inside and spin the sphere," he explains, "how different it is! Centrifugal force places all objects in their right sequence by density: solids, liquids, gases; and in the very center there will be a vacuum, whereto protons and electrons converge to form 'fotons' which in turn constitute the sun. . . ." As imaginatively sketched by Navarro's son, the universe fits, cozily inside a globe with a thick, unpleasantly scrofulous outside crust...