Word: spottedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fireballs & Astrophysics. The gift of Charles Hayden, a dapper Boston-born banker (Hayden, Stone & Co.) who made millions speculating in copper, the versatile robot was built at the Zeiss Works in Jena, Germany at a cost of $110,000. When it made its debut, it was the fourth such instrument...
Actually, the editors had dug out an old Sovfoto picture taken back in 1937, when Joseph Stalin was busily purging his Old Bolshevik pals and grinding out propaganda that they were traitors who deserved to be shot. One sharp-eyed Times reader, Editor, Author and ex-Communist Max Eastman, who...
As the official restorer for Kansas City's William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, James Roth was the first to notice something strange about one of the old Chinese murals on loan to the gallery. All were well-preserved examples of 12th century Chinese wall painting, brilliant scenes of...
The "power of the great idea" enables the university to affect both reason and morality, he said. Drawing an analogy between life and a tree, Finley spotted the vice of American society in its propensity to believe that one branch of the tree--such as reason or emotion--can exist...
Suddenly it stops and stares, and a little, tonguelike organ in the center of the dish vibrates with fierce excitement. Somewhere, far beyond human sight, it has spotted an enemy jet diving down from the edge of space at close to the speed of sound. It stares intently for a...