Word: berge
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...When it comes to language, however, Californians showed little tolerance for speaking in foreign tongues. In polyglot California, where Spanish is practically a necessity and Korean is not a rarity, voters passed a measure making English the "official" language. Many saw the vote as a sign of xenophobia. Larry Berg, a professor of political science at the University of Southern California, describes the vote as reflecting "no-nothing, nativist resentment toward this massive influx of people." But former Senator S.I. Hayakawa, a formidable semanticist who led the crusade, promised it was not meant to homogenize Californian life. * "If you want...
Howard C. Berg, professor of cellular and developmental biology, before beginning his lecture on bacteria movement...
Swinging wires held to his chest in mimicry of a bacterium, Professor of Biology Howard C. Berg discussed mechanisms bacteria use to move at the end of the lecture...
...Berg explained that a motor analogous to a bacterium's locomotion power would produce 6000 r.p.m., 10 horsepower, and 16 cylinders...
Neither as chic as Paris nor as intriguingly edgy as Budapest, the Vienna of today is a cozy and polished metropolis. But at the beginning of the 20th century, Vienna was chockablock with giants of the age: Freud and Wittgenstein, Mahler, Berg and Schoenberg, Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka, Hoffmann, Wagner and Loos -- as well as the young Adolf Hitler, a desperate artist-architect manque. Old cultural dogmas had been discredited, new doctrines not yet entrenched. Imminence was all. Artists and intellectuals all over Europe shared a sense of being on the very cusp -- between a smug century...