Word: sphere
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...These values are spiritual and absolute, rather than material and relative . . . quite above and beyond the sphere of human development. It is for man to perceive these values as the lasting, immutable works of his God. He must not conceive them as the property of his own mind, to be twisted and distorted to suit the demands of expediency...
Paul D. Sheats '54, Student Council President, said that they will work together only on academic problems. "In the sphere of academic projects we feel we will derive the most benefit because it is there that we have most in common with the Radcliffe Council," he said yesterday. "This will aid greatly the Council's goal of improving the educational standards of the College...
...Trieste is Professor Auguste Piccard's newest "bathyscaphe."* On the surface she looks vaguely like a ship, but she is really an underwater balloon designed to sail the depths of the sea just as a blimp navigates the air. Her crew compartment is a forged and welded steel sphere about 8 ft. in diameter with walls 3½ in. thick. This is the only part designed to resist the enormous pressure of the deep sea. It hangs below a "floater": a submarine-shaped hull of thin steel about 60 feet long and filled with 22,000 gallons of gasoline...
...miles south of the island of Ponza where the Tyrrhenian Trench is 10,000 ft. deep. Just after the cheerless dawn, old Professor Piccard, a black Basque beret over his white hair, boarded the Trieste from an Italian navy corvette and climbed down a tube leading to the pressure sphere. His son, Jacques, 30, was already on board, crammed among oxygen bottles, apparatus and 102 instruments, including a movie camera. When the professor closed a massive door, the Trieste was ready to dive. Men from the corvette opened valves, letting sea water into parts of the floater. They scurried aboard...
Most Russians found themselves in the elder's predicament when Tolstoy, his face more flushed than ever, started pole-hanging in the sphere of politics and morals. Some listened passionately to his revolutionary edicts; other gaped and wished the old man would stick to art. Anton Chekhov, who was born (1860) 32 years after Tolstoy, started by listening, but eventually decided that he could do better gymnastics...