Word: cosmos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...redshift of the farthest whose spectra could be analyzed (about 150,000,000 lightyears) indicated the thumping pace of 15,000 miles per second. Thus the galaxies at the frontiers of the observable universe must be receding twice as fast, and at the unseen bounds of the cosmos the nebular velocity must be greater than that of light...
...when he discovers that knowledge cannot be translated into happiness and the oldest of human emotions recalls him to seek his destiny as have most men before him. Mr. Peattie's conception of Europe--rather the opposite of Spengler's declining West--grew out of the Riviera's fascinating cosmos of disrupted society. He sees Western civilization as an unprecedented precocity, dangerous, egotistic, brilliant and exciting--the wonder child of the ages. So the story of Kyril came to be written...
...papers) and a stenographer. Dr. Warren keeps no files, carries all his papers in a brief case with which he slips in and out of the side entrance of the White House. Sometimes he returns to Ithaca for a day or two. In Washington he lives at the Cosmos Club one block from the White House. Since he has been in Washington he has spoken no word to the Press, written no articles, refused to express his opinions even by letter...
...have a place. Hero Andrew ("One-Eye") Gather is not prepossessing at first sight. A private tutor in Cambridge, Mass., Harvard graduate, intellectual in his late 30's, with a glass eye (unexplained), an increasingly unhappy marriage and a correspondingly increasing tendency to drunkenness, he has in his cosmos not only too much ego but too much untethered intelligence and the haunting, still unlaid nightmare of a childhood tragedy. At outs with his wife for the past six months, he has suspected her and his best friend of being more than friendly. Acting on a candid letter from another...
...underlining the egoist is making a modest bid for immortality; a modest bid, for his admirers can never penetrate his anonymity. The difficulty is that in taking a philosophic attitude in dealing with common property one is more likely to prove oneself untouchable than to prove the cosmos intangible...