Word: dwarfing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...layman in the field, many of the Museum's exhibits verge upon the spectacular. Twenty-five foot totem poles dwarf the onlooker in the hall of Indian ethnology; in the Bowditch Hall of Middle American culture, huge casts of Mayan, statuary tower two floors in height. On Peabody's top floor, the skull of Mt. Carmel Man, the only Paleolithic man on exhibit in the United States, sits staring moodily at his bones in case across the hall. Not far away stands the Museum's ample collection of shrunken and mummified human beads, calculated to surprise even the most hardened...
...piano writing must reflect the external scene--now the roaring sea, now the realm of abstract speculation, now the very power of Bacchus. In all these shifting moods the composer's emotional intensity must be just a degree less than the poet's; the musical setting must heighten, not dwarf the spirit of the poetry. Finally, there is the language--the cool, stark quality of Latin in this case--to render beautiful, Mr. Bonvalot's settings fulfilled these qualifications to a remarkable dgree. The power and intelligence with which Mr. Bonvalot, one soloist, conveyed both the dramatic and musical aspects...
Menzel is noted for his research in solar activitly and was the first to determine that the nuclei of planetary nebulae are white dwarf stars. His studies of solar eclipses led him to develop and install the first coronagraph in America...
...potent and bubbly brew of '76 was compounded of two unlike elements. Rebellion against tradition and authority, a spirit present in all men everywhere, was stepped up in America by the individualism of the frontier and the frontiersman's vision of a future that would escape and dwarf the past. This was part of the Spirit of '76, and it marched west with the mountain men, the wagon trains, the steam cars, and the jalopies of the Great Depression...
...affairs and letters are refused entry to this country. Think, for a moment, of what would happen if a number of leading American industrialists were refused visas for travel in Europe because they did not think "straight" on Korea. The bellows from the halls of Congress would dwarf in noise, if not in idealism, the fabled shot heart round the world...