Word: best
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still another sour note was sounded. Gunnar Jarring of Sweden, echoing the irritation of his countryman Hammarskjold, declared that in view of the American landings, the. U.N. observers should be withdrawn. In effect, this would mean that the U.S. would be left to get out of its predicament as best it could...
...cinematic best a shaggy lumpen proletarian helplessly meshed in the woof of modern life, Cinemillionaire Charlie Chaplin off the set could apparently out-guile even a Boston textile tycoon. According to a suit filed last week in Manhattan by a widow of a onetime business pal, Charlie was wont to have his royalties deposited at Manhattan's J. P. Morgan & Co., then transferred to a Swiss banker, who funneled the funds to a dummy corporation set up by Chaplin in currency-careless Tangier. Result: two years after Chaplin settled in Switzerland-and while the U.S. Government was vainly trying...
...ancient definition, 'doctor' means one sufficiently skilled in any branch of knowledge to teach it." Dr. Seymour acknowledges that there are some weak programs leading to Ph.D.s (a onetime Brooklyn Dodger bat boy, he got his from Cornell for a history of baseball). But at its best, he writes, "the character of the work entailed in obtaining the Ph.D. from a first-class university calls forth intellectual powers of a higher order than does that involving the M.D. Although the latter is usually a product of exacting requirements, the work leading to it places a premium on memory...
Commissioned in 1936 to design a building for Brazil's Ministry of Education, Architect Costa summoned Le Corbusier from France, surrounded "the greatest man in modern architecture" with a group of students who have since become Brazil's best. Among them: Afonso (Museum of Modern Art) Reidy, Jorge (University City) Moreira, Niemeyer. Then Costa pulled out of the project after a series of disagreements. The others elected Novice Niemeyer as their leader, and their building, faced with blue, louver-like sun-breakers, became a famed architectural milestone...
...Molecules. The simplest kind of atomic engine uses a nuclear reactor to heat a gaseous propellant and shoot it out of a nozzle. Its chief advantage over chemical rocket engines: its propellant can be liquid hydrogen, whose molecules are light and therefore move faster at a given temperature. The best possible chemical combination (hydrogen and ozone), burning at 5,000° F. and 500 lbs.-per-sq.-in. chamber pressure, gives an exhaust velocity of 13,000 ft. per sec. A nuclear rocket, using hydrogen at the same pressure and only 3,000° F., shoots it out the tail...