Word: curiousities
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...This is curious commentary but one that leads back to earlier speculation. When it was noted that Carter had taken over a peaceful and prosperous nation, some historians suggested that it might be difficult for a man of so limited experience to learn very much in such a tranquil introduction to power. That does not seem so farfetched...
...weak" forces were labeled to resolve a separate contradiction--the curious, so-called "beta-decay" of certain nuclei. Thus, if Einstein's unified field theory was to be vindicated, all these forces had somehow to be reconciled--proven to be aspects of the same force...
...curious aspect of this great discovery was that like so many other physical theories of its time, it was to lie fallow for many years. Students were forever proposing theories in a frenetic attempt to account for the many contradictions in physics; Glashow's was regarded as just another prospect. "I was very proud of the paper," its author fondly recalls, "but I had no idea of its import. If we'd been smarter, we'd have realized as early as 1964 how important it was. But we were stupid. I had to import two foreigners to figure...
...peculiar sense of arrogance accompanied their isolation. Trilling found students self-possessed, "feeling that the hand of God touched them because they were at Harvard." In 1921 you chose Radcliffe from a telephone book. It did not choose you. Students seemed a curious mixture of selfishness and insecurity, aware of their privilege but without self-confidence or faith in their abilities...
...r.p.m. that would fall short of spinning a billion times in a year, the fact that a billion minutes ago (A.D. 77) the Christian era had scarcely got under way. Still, such efforts to evoke the actuality of a billion are far likelier to give the curious a picture of an extremely tall stack of currency than of the quantity of a billion units. In truth, most mega-numbers (and micro-numbers) that fly by these days paralyze the mind almost as much as a googol...