Word: bit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Says SI Publisher Harry Phillips: "A new magazine is like a new acquaintance ; both take more than a bit of knowing. I think we made a good first impression, and now that people know us better, we are making real friends (more than 600,000 subscribers). Only last week a group of professionals in publishing, whose opinion I value, told me: 'You have a hit on your hands...
...type that was exploded by the U.S. in the Pacific last year, said Scientist Libby in his famous "fallout speech" last June, can sprinkle death-dealing radioactive dust over an area of 100,000 square miles. "An area so large," he added dryly, ";that evacuation may be a bit impractical." As the AEC's "vice president in charge of atoms for peace," Libby is the American responsible for charting the tricky path away from national preoccupation with the destructive atom to international cooperation for harnessing the atom's untold goodness. "We have only begun to scratch the surface...
Educators have every reason to shudder at the outrageously cynical characterization of the college president. Betty Grable as a shrewd blonde carries most of the acting load. But Sheree North - who looks every bit as good from the south and every other point of the compass - is the major attraction. Though her dumblonde role calls for few lines, Dancer North, in a few blistering numbers, tosses her torso around with the speed and precision of a super-rocket. As Hollywood's newest guided miss. Sheree ought to be very, very popular...
...monster who was hanged in effigy throughout the U.S. in World War I. It is not simply that the author remembers Wilhelm II's good points; it is the fact that he had so many weak ones. Kürenberg's book makes the going a bit sticky for people whose knowledge of modern European history is shaky, but it will bring many a surprise to readers who vaguely remember Wilhelm as the Iron Hohenzollern who had something to do with bayoneting Belgian babies. Most of all, it will shake the beliefs of those who are still under...
...taken to fiction, but fiction has not yet taken to Philosopher Russell. The reason is that when logicians with a sense of humor start toying with storytelling, their mighty brains behave like dancing elephants playing dancing mice. The fiction they write is more sophisticated than nursery rhymes but every bit as childish: only once in a blue moon does a logician like Lewis Carroll come along and succeed in transforming the kindergarten into Wonderland...