Word: sunlight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tells of a gadget specially designed to do the job from a high-flying rocket. Developed at the University of Colorado, the "sun-seeker" has 21 photoelectric cells that peek from doors opened in the nose of the rocket as it climbs toward the top of the atmosphere. Sunlight falling on the cells tells them just where the sun is. They take note of this information and keep a spectrographic camera pointing straight at the sun, even though the rocket may be rolling...
...groups of the same races living under these very same climates."-The final answer to the menace of tuberculosis must go far beyond treatment of current cases, say Dubos & wife. It is a way of life: "Cleanliness of body and habits, a room of one's own where sunlight and fresh air enter freely, physical and mental rest . . . diets ... to meet the unperverted demands of the body." The authors admit that there is nothing new in this prescription. But. they say, the world needs a new spirit of evangelism to spread this gospel and make it work. "It will...
...Apostle raised himself a little, supported by imperial hands. How bright the sunlight was, on the warm grey stones, on the ripe Roman skins, on vermilion and lavender and blue and ermine and green and gold, on the indecent grotesque blackness of two blotches, on apostolic whiteness and the rose of blood." After Hadrian, Rolfe managed to write a vivid small novel, Don Tarquinio, but then financial troubles closed him round...
Even a small satellite could be made to shine at dusk. It could inflate a plastic balloon which would gleam as brightly in the sunlight as a first-magnitude star. This "American star," rising in the west, should make a powerful impression on the peoples of Asia...
...imaginative efforts to make the planets sound attractive, scientists consider earth's neighborhood rather slummy. But the space planners are optimistic. Colonists on the airless moon, they say. could erect Plexiglas domes and fill them with any atmosphere they liked. They could grow bumper crops in the unfailing sunlight, could extract metals and oxygen from the rocks. Arthur C. Clarke in The Explora, tion of Space argues that man might thrive under such conditions better than he does on earth...