Word: taking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contrasting it with the small batches made in his University of Pittsburgh laboratory. Dr. Salk has always stoutly insisted that his handmade vaccine was capable of doing everything expected of it, and among hundreds of children inoculated with it there have been few cases where it failed to "take." Lat since wholesale vaccinations began in 1955, overall effectiveness of no more than about 80% in preventing paralytic polio has been claimed (many cases of paralysis have been reported in children who had had three shots...
...lake, it could drift for millions of years before it approached the nearest star, Proxima Centauri, which is 25 trillion miles away from the sun. Man's spaceships can probably reach interstellar escape velocity in a generation, but there will be little profit in interstellar voyages. They will take too long. The barrier that protects the stars and their planetary systems from human invasion is not space but time, and the shortness of man's life...
...program is roughly similar. A "soft" instrument landing on the moon may be accomplished in 1960. Putting a man in space will take longer. A protected capsule to bring him back alive is already under development. One of the preliminary research tools toward this project is the X-15 rocket-plane, which will meet its first tests in a month or so. It is designed to start its flights in the atmosphere, then shoot out of it to a probable height of 150 miles. Its descent on stubby wings will build experience for controlled returns from deeper space...
...lived so long, the emptiness overhead looks almost impossibly hostile. Its vacuum kills a soft-bodied human in a few seconds; its radiation and heat and cold are almost as quickly fatal. But man has his daring and his intelligence. His body will not have to change. He can take with him into space an artificial environment that simulates the familiar bottom of the atmosphere...
...hefty (but undisclosed) price for permission to broadcast it. On the air, it hardly seemed worth all the fuss. Despite a few diverting sight gags-e.g., Benny, in full Victorian rig, standing impassive as ceiling plaster rains down on him-the long-delayed take-off shed more gas than light. One of the rare high spots: when Benny urges his wife (Barbara Stanwyck) to take dinner in bed, she screams hysterically: "I had breakfast in bed, I had lunch in bed. I can't have dinner in bed-it's full of dirty dishes...