Word: discoverable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Glenn Theodore Seaborg, 45, director of chemical research at the University of California's Radiation Laboratory, explains with disarming simplicity: "I discover new elements." Born in the mining town of Ishpeming, Mich., he found his calling in a Los Angeles high-'school science class, pursued it at the...
Only during a period of serious illness as a student did Thielicke discover that theology was something more than an intellectual game. After recovering, says he, "I now knew what faith was." In 1940 he was ordained a minister in the Evangelical Church, shortly thereafter became a pastor in the...
He will discover that bread is the staff of life, and that the Dutch spread everything from chocolate candies to fresh stawberries on their bread. He will learn to put mustard or mayonnaise, and not catsup, on the French fries he buys from sidewalk stands.
The Experimenter in Holland will learn to ride a bicycle, if he doesn't know how, and will come to consider a 10-mile bike ride a short sprint. He will discover that the raincoat, and not wooden shoes, is the most essential article in the Dutch national costume.
¶ "To call Augustine a 'sexually repressed monk' is just too funny. Have you read his Confessions'? Parts of it are better than Confidential. But the point is that, through wrestling with the problem of sexual lust, he came to discover God, and to discover himself in...