Word: dimensional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"I took off into the fourth and fifth dimensions. ... To get into the fourth dimension you did like this [a sound of fingers snapping]. To get into the fifth dimension I just raise my hand like this. . . . The fourth dimension, that means you can wander all over the world . . . and...
The picture has one glaring fault: it is far too fond of reproducing, by direct quotation, samples of the worst of the careful but uneven prose in which Raymond Chandler wrote the original thriller. Aside from that it handles Chandler's extremely cinemadaptable story so well that, if anything...
Third Dimension. The Japs' aerial slaps at the Marianas took few casualties and did little damage. But it was clear that the enemy was making a determined drive to capitalize on his front-line land planes now that his front-line ships and carrier planes had been crippled. He...
A dumpy little man, silent with strangers, responsive among friends, dead at 39 of consumption, Brown was a far better writer than later generations admitted. He filled his novels with seductions, crimes, violence and a robust 18th-Century sentiment, as well as the ghostly trappings of Gothic romances. But the...
Mr. & Mrs. Mathematician. The Liebers, who teach mathematics at New York's Long Island University, have a fine time explaining elementary things about Boolian algebra, non-Euclidean geometry and the fourth dimension. The reader is likely to share their gusto, even if he can not agree that "science and...