Word: transiting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...relay station for forwarding floods of messages almost instantaneously around the curve of the earth. Echo I, the 100-ft. balloon satellite, which is still a striking naked-eye spectacle in the sky, showed the value of a large, passive reflector from which to bounce radio waves. Transit satellites I-B and II-A were U.S. Navy prototypes for a network that will outmode all previous methods of air and sea navigation. The U.S.'s Pioneer V lived up to its name by spinning into an orbit around the sun, still sending radio messages back to earth when...
...only absolutes, and full absolution; Durrell is convinced that the Greeks live "beyond good and evil." The only space that matters to them is the spot they occupy. Asked the distance to a neighboring town, a Corfiote villager would reply with the number of cigarettes smoked in transit. With the reminder that "Poverty is the Tenth Muse" of Greece, Durrell makes the inevitable attempt to define the national character: It "is based on the idea of the impoverished and downtrodden little man getting the better of the world around him by sheer cunning. Add to this the salt...
...general manager of the Metropolitan Transit Authority said yesterday that he would not object to selling the controversial Bennet St. switching and storage yards to the University, if the MTA could find another base of operations and vacate the land...
...Open Transit...
University and Metropolitan Transit authority officials will meet with the Cambridge City Council next Monday to discuss a proposed bus shelter location Harvard Square...