Word: decays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...debris. One of them has been: Element 101. But all of these atomic monstrosities will be short-lived. The forces that hold nuclei together do not seem to work well above the weight of uranium. The outsized atoms either fission (split) spontaneously or turn into lighter elements by radioactive decay...
...twice Mayor of Lübeck. His mother was the daughter of a German planter in South America who married a Portuguese Creole. Mann studied literature in Munich, journeyed to Rome, and at 25 had a stupendous success with his first full-length novel, the story of the decay of a bourgeois family similar to his own. Buddenbrooks sold more than a million copies in Germany, brought Mann the Nobel Prize for Literature...
...Housecleaning. He married Katja Pringsheim, the daughter of a professor at Munich University, and it was out of his wife's experience in a sanitarium for tuberculosis patients that he built another great success, The Magic Mountain, this time a parable of civilization in decay. The Magic Mountain outsold Hitler's Mein Kampf, but Hitler's quarrel with Mann was based on Mann's nonliterary championing of the old German tradition. One day in 1933, when Mann and his wife were vacationing in Switzerland, Klaus and Erika, their two eldest children, telephoned. "Stay in Switzerland," they...
...concern: though it helps to cut down tooth decay in children, it may-if too concentrated-damage adults' teeth. He did not specify at what point the concentration becomes dangerous...
...review of the motion picture Blackboard Jungle, I am intrigued by the pronouncement that "Louis Calhern captures that special look of secret decay that can come from breathing chalk dust for 30 years [March 21]". While I am considerably short of 30 years in high-school service, I have inhaled a great deal of that insidious white stuff which produces "the secret decay." (Laymen may not know that some times after a concussion of erasers on the blackboard, the familiar mushroom cloud of dust rises high in the air and results in heavy fallout many feet from the point...