Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Uncooked Fish. Another tapeworm partial to humans, Diphyllobothrium latum, is acquired by eating uncooked fish. It is common in Scandinavia, where raw fish livers are considered a delicacy. In some parts of Finland, 80% of the people are infected...
Though best known for such flamboyant experiments as Marcel Duchamp's famed Nude Descending a Staircase, the hit of Manhattan's 1913 Armory Show, all three brothers started out dead serious about their art, and it was art that became their common bond. Recalls Marcel: "We had always in our head the famous adage, 'stupid as a painter.' We tried to introduce some brains into the problem...
Sand & Science. Refined from common sand, Texins' super silicon is so pure (not more than one part of non-silicon to 1 billion parts of silicon) that the National Bureau of Standards still lacks a grading system for it. In minute amounts, it will enable electronics men to make transistors with nearly twice the heat resistance (up to 300° F.) of previous transistors, and open up vast new possibilities for the guidance systems in supersonic planes and pilotless missiles. Says President John Erik Jonsson: "This is the purest product ever made...
...Pang Among Flowers. Highet's book places its poets at their geographical point of departure (Catullus at Verona, Vergil near Mantua, etc.) and takes them to their common destination. Rome. Even more fascinating than their individual styles and talents, which Author Highet expertly analyzes, is a common historical drama linking the seven together in a way which Author Highet suggests but perhaps never sufficiently emphasizes. The eldest, Catullus, died around 54 B.C., ten years before Caesar was assassinated; the youngest, Juvenal, was born around 60 A.D., six years after Nero came to power. In little more than a century...
...that the outstanding scientists of this century show an increasing interest and a striking ability in the study of philosophy. Dr. Oppenheimer has more than proven his abilities as a scientist, and while a judgment of his philosophy might be presumptuous and premature, his recent books, Science and the Common Understanding and The Open Mind have been recognized as the work of a major mind...