Word: watered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since then, Campbell has held the record unchallenged and upped it every year. But the magic 300-m.p.h. mark on water has become to Campbell what Mount...
...Manhattan's strange and elegant World House Galleries (TIME, Feb. 4, 1957). Now ground is being broken for the partners' full-scale project at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem: a gigantic shrine, to be entered from underground, and built around an 80-foot column of c water, to house the Dead Sea Scrolls...
...West Texas in 1924, when up-and-down Benedum was close to going broke, he drilled in the shade of a rig that had been blessed in the name of Saint Rita, saint of the impossible. The impossible area was a desert of dunes and cactus, 50 miles from water. On his ninth try there, he struck it; oil came roaring...
Behind the comedy lay disasters. A man who befriended Aimee killed himself; one of her lawyers died when his car turned over in a water-filled ditch; a state Superior Court judge who backed Aimee was impeached (but acquitted). Mused Ma Kennedy: "It seems that nearly everyone who has been trying to help us has something happen to them." Perjurers, crackpots and self-seekers erupted from the woodwork; religious animosities blossomed. Through it all, Aimee followed her code: "I only remember the hours when the sun shines, sister!" She got surprising backing from Baltimore's vitriolic H. L. Mencken...
Change Is Decay. To the Babylonians, Egyptians and Hebrews, the world was an oyster, water below, water above (it seeped through the upper dome as rain), with the earth as snug and central as a pearl. But between the 6th and 3rd centuries B.C., the Greeks reached certain conclusions that were to be ignored for the next 2,000 years, e.g., that the earth rotated on its axis, that the sun was the center of the universe...