Word: constructive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is no plot in the novel, no story in the usual sense of the word. What happens to Earwicker or what has happened to him-whether, indeed, he is as central a figure as he appears to be-is open to question: readers can construct a dozen theories to explain the form of the book, and find plausible evidence for each. Thus, it sometimes seems that sane speeches are not part of the dream, but voices from the waking world which dimly reach the sleeper. Sometimes it seems that he is hearing confused sounds of some turbulent life going...
...15th Century cocky composers sometimes showed off by writing compositions that could be played backwards as well as forwards. These compositions, called cancrizans or "crab style" (because of a mistaken idea that crabs walk backwards) were as difficult to construct as crossword puzzles. But they were not worth listening...
...important as Gibraltar. After the war Japan was given a mandate over the once German Caroline Islands. The Caroline Islands lie across the U. S. route to the Philippines, and Guam lies across the Japanese route to the Carolines. In 1922 the Washington Naval Treaty bound both countries to construct no new fortifications in the Pacific (with few minor exceptions), but four years ago Japan renounced that treaty...
...Russia, which hitherto has concentrated on underwater craft, is entering the battleship race, plans to construct three 35,000-tonners, each with nine 16-inch guns...
Ultimate goal of science-so distant that it is hardly more than an iridescent ideal- is to construct a unified system which will represent in exact terms all the phenomena of nature. Quantum mechanics is an exact, mathematical system for dealing with atoms and radiation. So named because its fundamental principle is that energy is exchanged in separate, indivisible bundles called quanta, quantum mechanics has been powerfully developed by such giants of physics as Bohr, de Broglie, Heisenberg, Schrodinger and Dirac (Nobel Prizewinners all). It has interpreted the laws of radiation, the laws of specific heat, the details of atomic...