Word: decays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vessels appearing as small circles, granular clusters, trusses of tangled fibrils. And that would be the last aspect left to mankind of the timid vagabond of islands and oceans.'' Mortal beauty and even mortal existence, Author Reverzy suggests, are never more than a bright buckler for mortal decay. But a courageous death, a first act of spirit, can give meaning to the most trifling life...
Since systematic excavations began in Pompeii in 1860, diggers have uncovered within the city limits the petrified-ash shells of the bodies of some 40 victims. Formed by the gradual decay of the body inside its ash wrappings, the shells retained over the years a near-perfect negative impression of the figure they had enclosed. By a technique refined by Archaeologist Amedeo Maiuri. currently in charge of Pompeii excavations, the presence of the ash cavities is detected by cautiously tapping the ground with blunted pickaxes. When the excavators spot a hollow, they drill several holes through the stratum...
Cambridge is the third of 92 cities which will view the program, designed to arouse public support for the problem of "crowding, blight, and urban decay...
...Europe last week there was far greater concern than in the U.S. that the Suez crisis might lead to shooting and war. The French were united as at no time since World War II in demanding Nasser's destruction and thereby, they hoped, reversing the decay of their position in North Africa. The British, while speaking more softly, were moving divisions and insisting through stiffened upper lips on their right and need to fight as a last resort against the loss of their irreplaceable strategic and material stake in the Middle East. As NATO met last week in Paris...
After the split, the cosmon decayed into the known universe. "The anti-cosmon may or may not have decayed by now, since spontaneous decay is a process governed by a statistical law," says Goldhaber. "If it did decay (forming an 'anti-cosmos'), any anti-nucleons that are shot out with sufficient velocity to reach our cosmos will annihilate some part of it, possibly establishing a deviation from spherical symmetry in the distribution of matter in our cosmos...