Word: containment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Astronomer Fritz Zwicky of Cal Tech thinks there is another way to pack matter tightly. Normal atoms contain one electron for each proton in the nucleus. If the electrons could be persuaded to unite with the protons, each pair would form a neutron. This reaction does not take place under normal conditions; the electrons circle forever, and the protons stay in the nucleus. But Zwicky believes that under the strange and violent conditions that exist in certain large stars, electrons may unite with protons...
...germs the United Nations are dropping in Korea are little pamphlets . . . [which] contain the most dangerous and communicable germs in the world, the truth...
...those 41 years, Alice Gould has made quite a name for herself in her special wonderland, for the Archives contain the world's richest collection of documents about the Spanish exploration of the New World. Ever since 1778, when Charles III ordered that all letters, papers and maps concerned with the colonies be assembled in one place, scholars have been flocking to Seville. But the most tireless researcher of them all-from Washington Irving and Martin Fernández de Navarrete to Harvard's Samuel Eliot Morison-has been Alice Bache Gould...
...were 60 men on the expedition; others said 71; still others said 108. By combing through Columbus' letters, hunting down birth certificates, digging up royal payrolls, Alice Gould finally set the figure at 89. Then she turned to the larger task of writing a monumental book which would contain a biography of each...
Unlike such contemporaries as James Boswell and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Gray not only refused to wear his heart on his sleeve but made sure that it was permanently hidden in his boots. His letters contain no horrifying confessions, no enlightening details of an intimate nature. They describe him merely as one who was occasionally attacked by black despondency but whose usual condition was the more negative one of "white Melancholy" -"A good, easy sort of state," Thomas Gray once called it. "The only fault of it is insipidity...