Word: impactions
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...Caltech is a qualified enthusiast. He believes that merely "getting a couple of guys to the moon and bringing them back" is hardly worth doing. But space exploration to gain more knowledge of the universe can be "one of the great scientific achievements or enterprises of all time. Its impact on the world and mankind is simply beyond calculation...
...sizes began flying off it. Some fell on the earth, heating its atmosphere, churning its surface, forming a halo of dust around it. Any life that existed on earth at the time was probably exterminated. So much moon matter fell on the earth that its high-speed impact changed the earth's rotation...
...fulfillment of Le Corbusier's plans at Chandigarh, Marseilles, and Nantes, followed two decades in which investors and public authorities spurned his plans although his ideas had a wide impact on architects and professional planners. His vast plans for the reconstruction of Paris as a city of widely spaced, 60-story skyscrapers never neared adoption. And a similar fate met schemes for Stockholm, Antwerp, and Algiers...
...impact of these imaginings was widespread. In Rio de Janeiro, a group of architects, including Oscar Niemeyer, designed the Brazilian ministry of Education and Health (1939-1943), incorporating Le Corbusier's ideas -- stilts, sun-breakers, roof-garden, cubist design of windows and balconies. Niemeyer's plans for Brasilia also show the impact of Le Corbusier...
...college reunion. Of TIME'S 40 years of cover subjects, many were dead and many others were foreign political, business, religious, scientific and intellectual leaders unable to make the journey to the U.S. In sifting through the remainder, the planning staff searched for excellence and for those whose impact in their fields had been constructive and lasting. Each invitation included the spouse of the cover subject, and many invitations were personally delivered by TIME representatives. Churches & Hairdressers. As acceptances poured into TIME'S offices, long-distance telephone calls were made to prospective guests to see when they would...