Word: bernard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reproduced in their actual shape by machine and man. The viruses, which are measured in millionths of an inch, were first photographed by an electron microscope that produces an enlarged image of minute particles through the use of a beam of electrons. Working from electron-micrograph prints, Artist Bernard Safran enlarged the viruses somewhat more to obtain the proper effect for the cover. Among those he chose to use, the sticklike viruses at upper left are the tobacco mosaic virus, which figured importantly in early virological discoveries made in the 19th century; the smaller, pellet-shaped viruses at the upper...
Still the scientists keep trying. Supported by the Navy and the National Science Foundation, Dr. Bernard Vonnegut of Arthur D. Little, Inc. has been trying for five years to hook up with significant amounts of atmospheric electricity. At first he tried flying tethered balloons into the base of thunderheads. Nothing much happened. A tiny spark jumped from the end of the mooring wire, but never a thunderbolt followed, not even when lightning was flashing all around. Apparently the wire drew ions out of the nearby parts of the cloud, thus insulating itself from full-scale lightning...
Misalliance, by George Bernard Shaw. A jam session of ideas recorded by that master improviser, G.B.S., back in 1910. With a knowledgeable band of actors handling the lines, the bounce is still there...
Devising questions for the examination has been a perennial problem, according to Bernard Ballyn, head tutor. "It was very difficult to find questions which asked more than those in the final exams to the required courses," he explained...
...Andelot Belin (3141 votes on the fifth count) and Bernard Goldberg (2775 votes) have also scored major upset victories in the election...