Word: bend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first practical proof of Einstein's new cosmic concepts came in 1919, when measurements of the sun's eclipse proved that light rays bend around solid objects, as Einstein's theory postulated. He won the Nobel Prize in 1921. Bertrand Russell wrote: "The theory of relativity is probably the greatest synthetic achievement of the human intellect up to the present time. It sums up the mathematical and physical labors of more than 2,000 years. Pure geometry, from Pythagoras to Riemann, the dynamics and astronomy of Galileo and Newton, the theory of electro-magnetism as it resulted...
...quit so well. Richard Chaffee confused too often the sophisticated evil of the Duke with the organic writhings of a monster. Ruth Emerson, as his niece, the Princess Saralinda, contrasted warmth and serenity with the Duke's icy fingers nicely when she first came on. But she did not bend as Thurber expanded her into the floating symbol of molested maidens...
...attractively British English that she learned at an Irish convent in Rangoon. Her role in the movie (her first) is largely therapeutic. A crack fighter pilot (Gregory Peck) seems determined to crash his plane and kill himself in a foolhardy maneuver against the Japanese. He has gone "round the bend" since his bride was killed on their wedding night. But once he meets Win, he realizes that "it is no good to die inside," and proves his will to live after a crash landing. Unfortunately, the tired script and plodding direction need even more than brilliance a thousandfold...
...General MacArthur's "cloud-high" speech. He said that war can no longer serve any desirable ends, and that any nation that engages therein will bring nothing but destruction and desolation on themselves as well as the enemy. Can any intellectually honest person deny that? . . . We must bend every efford to procure universal military disarmament (U.M.I. not U.M.T...
MICKEY MOUSE first hove into public sight at the wheel of a steamboat rushing round a bend of what appeared to be the Mississippi River. As he swung in for a landing, Mickey tootled a tune-oom-pah-pah, with a tweet now and then-on his signal-whistles,which suddenly had faces that scrooged up as they blew. In the next release, our hero for the first foolish time met Minnie, a mousy young lady who looked as much like Mary Pickford as a rodent could. And all at once, for no apparent reason, there was Pegleg Pete...