Word: abstractedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...idea from Hertz's demonstration of the existence of electromagnetic waves. And Hertz got the idea of looking for such waves from Clerk Maxwell, who got his idea from working with the calculus. And the calculus was invented long before by Newton, who was an abstract, not a practical thinker...
Died. Piet Mondrian (Pieter Cornells Mondriaan), 71, Holland-born dean of rectilinear abstract painters; in Manhattan. The gentle, jazz-and-orange-loving hermit, heavily influenced by Pablo Picasso, always said that regular curves made him nervous; deplored the necessary circularity of records and oranges...
...Conversation is the main thing. Texas teachers start off by making the sounds of Spanish vowels. On the second day of school third graders greet each other in Spanish. Children talk about their ages, games, homes. Gradually their vocabularies expand. Pupils learn how words and phrases should sound, not abstract rules. Formal grammar comes in high school. The same ideas are embodied in Mireles' textbooks (Mi Libra Español, I, II and III), the latest of which is just off the press...
World Standard. Banker Fraser's plan was developed "out of the facts of present world finance and trade rather than out of an abstract blueprint." The facts of trade and finance, said Mr. Fraser, are: 1) the U.S. gold-backed dollar is the strongest currency in the world; 2) the British pound is the most widely used...
...beautiful redirecting of divine energy, his faculty for recognizing the "shape" of the spirit, and of distinguishing between appearance and reality. The evil spirit, concluded Oyarsa, expressed himself through the two scientists, one of whom loved nothing but gold, while the other loved humanity only in the abstract. Back on earth, "the silent planet," it must be Ransom's duty to fight these men wherever he found them...