space Age chic, transparency, and even a bit of DayGlo surfaced on the catwalks.
Similar to the space Shuttle in appearance, the diminutive X-37B is about a quarter the size of the old shuttles.
space Invaders had just been introduced in America, and Atari was looking for a game that would do it one better.
But I do not speak here, in any way, officially or unofficially, for the space Foundation.
His most famous works, like The Man Who Flew Into space from His Apartment, created in 1984, were read as anti-Soviet manifestos.
Let us, however, consider for a moment what can be meant by a sensation of space.
Before the revelations of the soul, Time, space and Nature shrink away.
But now, as two space Patrolmen in their silvery armor, arrived from their quarters and stood beside him, he smiled a little.
space is said by Plato to be the 'containing vessel or nurse of generation.'
Place a penny on the middle of one of your tables in space; and leaning over it, look down upon it.
c.1300, "an area, extent, expanse, lapse of time," a shortening of Old French espace, from Latin spatium "room, area, distance, stretch of time," of unknown origin. Astronomical sense of "stellar depths" is first recorded 1667 in "Paradise Lost."
Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards. [Sir Fred Hoyle, "London Observer," 1979]Typographical sense is attested from 1670s (typewriter space bar is from 1888). Space age is attested from 1946; spacewalk is from 1965. Many compounds first appeared in science fiction and speculative writing, e.g. spaceship (1894, "Journey in Other Worlds"); spacesuit (1920); spacecraft (1930, "Scientific American"); space travel (1931); space station (1936, "Rockets Through Space"); spaceman (1942, "Thrilling Wonder Stories;" earlier it meant "journalist paid by the length of his copy," 1892). Space race attested from 1959. Space shuttle attested by 1970.
1703, "to arrange at set intervals," from space (n.). Meaning "to be in a state of drug-induced euphoria" is recorded from 1968. Space cadet "eccentric person disconnected with reality" (often implying an intimacy with hallucinogenic drugs) is a 1960s phrase, probably traceable to 1950s U.S. sci-fi television program "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet," which was watched by many children who dreamed of growing up to be one and succeeded.
space (spās)
n.
A particular area, extent, or cavity of the body.
sentence
Do you have any other startling information? TELL ME ABOUT IT • Always used with heavy irony: We are told that Stalin's was an exceptionally evil mind. So what else is new?/ Once again, headlines warn of a trade war between the U.S. and Japan. So what else is new? (1950s+)
character
The space character, ASCII 32.
See octal forty.
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