Word: atomical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seeks tracks for its life force to reunite with the cosmic force of the impersonal universe, in "the hollow darkness outside the stars and the dark hollow in the atom." The nerves of his writing are taut under elemental strains?the strain of the Pacific against its granite boundaries, of a mountainous coast verging on earthquake, of oil tanks about to explode and consume themselves, of brains splitting with a dasmon. His greatest word...
Here lies an assured and inescapable truth. It is the stronger because, even while firmly proclaiming its strength, it willingly recognizes its own limitations. Schools never yet have created an atom of genius; but rare, exceedingly rare, is the man of fair endowment who cannot, by schooling, increase his own competence and his worth to society, whether in business or in botany, in finance or in philology. The Boston Transcript...
...trigger; but at that same instant a band struck up the Fascist hymn "Giovinezza," and Signor Mussolini threw back his head proudly to listen. The bullet sped, but not into his brain. He had thrown back his head far enough so that the leaden slug only clipped an atom of flesh from the tip of his nose...
...Thomas Henry Huxley (Evolution), "in these days of manifold information and broadcast amusement, that the world will become divided into those who have to think for their living and those who never think at all." Hence?and because the layman, while he is knowing and kindly towards an atom or electron when he meets one, is embarrassed by sperms and ova and benighted as to chromosomes?hence another volume of popular biology...
Professor P. W. Bridgeman '04. Rumford medalist, and a physicist famous for his research in high pressure, is at present working on the viscosity of mercury but stated, when asked whether he had subjected any atoms to hydraulic compression that he had limited his activities in this field to pressure of many tons upon single metal crystals: At Yale, a pressure physicist has succeeded in making a fat square atom into a long thin atom by means of a pile driver, but the significance of his experiment has not thrilled the scientific world...