Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Considering the first topic, Oppenheimer pointed out that Newtonian mechanics had been enormously successful in application to the effects of gravitational forces, but they were unable to explain the constant shape and, in general, size of the electon orbits...
Finally, the atom's very shape and nature was at once elucidated and complicated by Rutherford's experiments and Bohr's subsequent theory of the hydrogen atom. The idea of agitated orbital states, defined in integral multiples of Planck's constant seriously contradicted the vision of classical mechanics
...realization that Lewis has made few contributions in the positive sense, with the possible exceptions of "Tarr" and "The Apes of God," which may be reheard and remembered for their literary virtues alone. In the main, however, Wagner's study indicates that Lewis has been valuable chiefly through his constant attacks from the enemy position. Like the burr under the saddle, he has helped to hurry things along. Speaking of Vorticism, a movement initiated by Lewis, Wagner remarks, "It was a necessary interim. It 'hustled the cultural Britannia, stepping up that cautious pace with which she prefers to advance...
...something out of Harper's Bazaar but talks like something out of Harper's Magazine. The Beast is not really beastly, merely unpleasant: Emmet Booth is nearly 50, short, balding, a self-made millionaire of lowly origins whose monster of an inferiority feeling must be appeased by constant sacrifices. Unsatiated by business triumphs and carloads of Watteaus, it now demands Miranda...
...loyalty conflicts between teachers and pupils in a community where Miss Julie is an unwilling, latter-day Sappho. Miss Cara dies myteriously of an overdose of sleeping drops: was it suicide over losing Olivia's affections? Miss Julie leaves school, telling Olivia emotionally that her life has been a constant fight against letting her feelings triumph over her social conscience; that she has lost the fight, and rather than be descreet, prefers to go away. And Olivia rides off in a carriage with the school cook Victoire, thinking, understanding very dimly...