Word: venusized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...readied more precise instruments than the earthbound human eye. At Boston, a group of Harvardmen borrowed a Coast Guard patrol plane, found a patch of open sky near Nova Scotia. The meteors, they reported, streaked across the sky about 17 per minute, most of them as bright as Venus. Said Harvard's famed Dr. Harlow Shapley: "It was the richest show we've had in this century...
...questions or less, the panel tries to identify some object, suggested by a listener. Samples: Ben Hur's chariot, the lost arms of the Venus de Milo, a keyhole, Harvey (Mary Chase's mythical rabbit). An offstage filter mike confidentially cuts listeners in on the secret. Producer Herb Polesie (rhymes with so-lazy) provides the humor, asking such Oscar Levantine questions as "Can I give it to my mother-in-law?" or "Can I do it to my wife?" But the program's popularity is due largely to the expert questioning of Fred, Florence and Bobby...
...other two: Out of the Silent Planet (on Mars), Perelandra (on Venus...
...Venus' handmaiden, she has one mighty asset besides well-publicized vitality: a native shrewdness at hiring smart people to work for her. Says she: "I only want people around me who can do the impossible." She rarely hires anyone who is out of a job. She tolerates no tomfoolery or inefficiency in horse trainers or jockeys either. She bubbles into the paddock before a race to tell her jockeys to "get out in front and go, go, go!" When she loses, she is apt to blame anyone but the horse...
...closest to the earth (160,000 mi.) when the moon's rather feeble attraction is reinforced by that of the sun directly behind it. So a space-voyage to the moon should be made when the moon is "new" and almost in line with the sun. Voyages to Venus, Mars and other planets have been plotted by similar calculations. They would take more time, not much more energy...