Word: distant
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...they are mostly hydrogen. The source of their energy was known: it is chiefly a nuclear reaction that turns hydrogen into helium. The stars-at least those within the telescope's field-had been measured, studied, divided into classes. The galaxies, those vast swirls of stars out in distant space, had also been measured and classified. There were new theories too, and good ones, but no general theory to knit things together. This was because (as Hoyle explains disarmingly) there was no one with enough knowledge imagination and daring to do the formidable...
Continuous creation? To many people the very idea seems startling or even shocking. Hoyle and his colleagues do not consider it so. It should not be more difficult to accept, they argue, than the common belief that the universe was created all at once in the distant past. In their own words, the hydrogen "just appears." Where it comes from they do not know, or if it comes from "anywhere" in the ordinary sense. Perhaps, they admit, man will never know. In any case, they leave to the theologians the capitalized word Creation to explain the genesis of the whole...
...these copies to newsstands and subscribers as quickly as possible, our traffic department had rearranged all of its schedules. Copies from our printing plants in Chicago, Philadelphia and Los Angeles were to go to the most distant points by special airlift. For example, copies for Spokane would leave the Chicago plant at 9 p.m., arrive in Spokane via Northwest Airlines plane at 9:44 a.m. Thursday, be sped by special truck to newsstand distribution centers, and go on sale at the newsstands before noon...
...Letter. For a few seconds it was so quiet that the ding-ding of distant streetcars was clearly heard. Then hundreds of people were running toward Blair-Lee House. A panting skirmish line of photographers charged in. A hefty Secret Service man named Floyd Boring looked up, saw the President, who had been aroused from a nap, peering out an upstairs window in his underwear. Boring bawled: "Get back! Get back!" until the President stepped out of sight...
...rather unusual that a university located in a city distant from farming centers should have a distinctive program designed "to give a higher education to farm leaders...