Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...committee will begin reviewing Core courses in two more areas--Social and Philosophical Analysis and Foreign Languages and Cultures--in two weeks...
...Japanese, who make all available VTRs, have shown no eagerness to jump into this new market, even though several manufacturers, including Sony and Matsushita, are known to have developed disc machines. Evidently they do not want to begin promoting videodiscs while sales of VTR machines remain strong. A Sony spokesman insists: "We don't think the public is yet ready for the discs." Magnavox and RCA hope to prove him wrong...
...earliest years, Einstein showed no obvious sign of genius; he did not begin talking until the age of three. At Munich's Luitpold Gymnasium (high school), he bridled at the inflexible system of rote learning and the drill-sergeant manner of his teachers, annoying them with his rebellious attitude. Said one: "You will never amount to anything...
...year-old patent examiner on the fringes of physics. That insight was shown in two remarkable papers that appeared during 1905 in the German scientific journal Annalen der Physik. The title of the first ? "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies" ? did not begin to reflect its eventual significance. Later it would become known as Einstein's special theory of relativity...
Before the scientific world could even begin to digest these assertions, the journal published still another communique from the young patent examiner. Einstein had devised an equation that accounted for Brownian motion, the random, zigzagging movements of microscopic particles within liquids (named after the Scottish botanist Robert Brown, who first observed it in 1827). Einstein suggested that the specks were being jostled by molecules in the liquid, an idea that finally convinced many early 20th century skeptics of the atomic nature...