Word: dimensionality
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Said Archbishop Mclntyre last week: "The office of shepherd of a flock is a responsibility of highest dimension. . . . When that sheepfold is the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, the responsibility becomes a challenge of magnitude."
Now, says Robertson, add a dimension. Take a deep breath and consider spheres instead of circles. In freshman solid geometry (which deals with ordinary "flat" space), a two-inch sphere has eight times the volume of a one-inch sphere. But if space is curved (a la Einstein), the two...
The Times, looking for the guilty parties, suggested that U.S. weathermen might profit by some tips from their fellow forecasters overseas. Back in the 1890s, when many Americans were still getting weather predictions from the almanac, France's Léon Teisserenc de Bort was finding out about the...
When, in 1936, General Emilio Mola announced that he would capture Madrid because he had four columns outside the city and a fifth column of sympathizers within, the world pounced on the phrase with the eagerness of a man who has been groping for an important word. The world might...
Most reporters report in one dimension, achieving at best the dramatic surface of a mural or a movie. Rebecca West reports in depth-a depth whose winding recesses of character, situation and context she divines by the play of unusually acute instincts and intuitions guided by an eye for significant...