Word: thousand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...earth is at least 2 billion years old; records have been preserved from only a few thousand years. It is therefore theoretically possible that inhabitants of other planets did visit our earth...
...MILLION CONTRACT will go to General Electric Co. to design, build and test world's biggest known radar system. It will be first part of Air Force's $721 million missile early-warning system (TIME, Feb. 3) to detect ICBMs in flight several thousand miles away. Work starts soon in G.E.'s Syracuse plant, will buoy company's defense employment...
...miles and half a thousand pages, the Redskins keep coming. "We'll stand them off," says one embattled paleface. "If we don't, save a ball for the women and children." The reader can have himself a different kind of ball with this book-if he will only persevere. Versatile Author Taylor (Center Ring, W. C. Fields) follows in the footsteps of a master of the picaresque. Tobias Smollett's The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771) was a superbly comical novel, in letter form, about a family traveling around England in the days of highwaymen...
...shriek of liquid oxygen as it pours under high pressure through valves and pipes. Clanging chords of hammer on steel, the humming sostenuto of machinery, the blip-blip rhythms bouncing onto radar screens from a network of grotesque antennas-the counterpoint races on in time to a thousand clocks, paced by thousands of hard-hatted men, their ears attuned, their hands ready at buttons, keys, switches, knobs, cranks and valves, their eyes darting from tube to dial, their pulses shooting over the unhurried step of time. And then the fire, the roar, the chorus of triumphant cries...
...third Air Force project is a true manned orbiter, launched from the ground as the final stage of a great rocket weighing several hundred thousand pounds. Putt does not tell much about it except that it will be "suitable for manned re-entry and recovery...