Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Termed "one of England's two most brilliant theoretical chemists," Moffit's specialty is quantum mechanics. He will teach this subject here during the spring...
Venus has an atmosphere that is mostly carbon dioxide and is always blanketed in brilliant white clouds. Most astronomers think its hidden surface is too hot to support the "carbon-cycle" life that exists on the earth. Mars is the best bet, but it is not too promising. U.S. Astronomer Percival Lowell, who died in 1916, spent 30 years studying the "canals" on Mars. He was convinced (and convinced a large public) that they were attempts by Martians to irrigate their arid planet with water from its polar snowcaps. Modern astronomers believe that Lowell was describing more than meets science...
...demands perfection from his machines but is "too quick to excuse the lack of it in his people"; Don Walling, the fair-haired boy of design and development who seems to "skitter about over the . . . surface" of a problem, gathering up unrelated facts, and then solves it with "a brilliant flash of pure creative imagination"; J. Walter Dudley, the sales boss, a "runner who [runs] without a goal" and thinks that if he runs hard, and makes enough friends, "everything [will be] all right"; Frederick Alderson, treasurer, a tired old company veteran and longtime confidant of the boss; and Loren...
...House ($3.50). What happens when a royal family of elephants pays a social visit to the Bird King & Queen, told with engaging naturalness by a French author-artist who knows how to splash his pages with vivid panoramic views that have what every child loves in a picture-a brilliant general impression combined with endless small details to be picked out at leisure...
Igor Youskevitch took up dancing at the age of twenty-four and, within a decade, has become the foremost classical ballet artist in this country. His double pirouettes in the Pas de Deux from The Nutcracker were so brilliant and perfect that he appeared suspended above the stage. And his control and grace in slower movements compare only with Andre Eglevsky of City Center...