Word: spaces
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...earth's favorite playmates in the lonely vastness of space is the Gia-cobini-Zinner comet, which sweeps around the sun in a lopsided orbit once every six and a half years. In 1933, two sweeps ago, the earth passed within 500,000 miles of the place where the comet had been 80 days before. The result: a gaudy shower of meteors...
...space ships of the future will not roar through the solar system, pushed by the blazing force of their atomic engines. Instead, they will coast in graceful curves, riding gravitational pulls as a glider rides the upward currents in the air. So thinks red-haired Professor (of astronomy) Samuel Herrick, 35, of the University of California at Los Angeles. Last week he was teaching an eight-man, two-girl class the delicate art of interplanetary gliding...
Students desiring tickets must apply at Phillips Brooks House between 10:30 and 11:30 o'clock or 4 and 5 o'clock, Monday through Friday. Upon application, the Agency representative will phone the theatre box office and obtain the space desired by the student, thus saving a trip to Boston and the consequent waiting in theatre lines...
...exterior of the one-time hospital wards. The cavernous buildings have been segmented crosswise into five or six sections apiece, each unit varying from one to three bedrooms--the number of bedrooms determining the cost. Each home has, besides, a living room, a kitchen a bathroom, plenty of closet space, and two radiators in every room. Until you figure that the rooms are, on the average, somewhat smaller than the college single bedroom, and that the radiators are easily twice the size of the ordinary bedroom variety, the more fact of two radiators doesn't sound at all frightening...
Probably at least one of the tunnels would be big enough to handle a full-sized super-rocket, testing 1) its reactions on its roaring rise through the atmosphere; 2) its flight through empty space, where utter cold makes many metals lose their strength; 3) its meteor plunge to earth, heated perhaps near incandescence by friction with denser...