Word: elemental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...knows, the only son of the man who was counted in another day and another dollar the richest man in the world. "I was born into it," he once explained, "and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there, like air or food or any other element. It was one of the things of the world. The only question with wealth is what you do with it. It can be used for evil purposes, or it can be an instrumentality for constructive social living...
Ionic Motor. More elaborate ways of using nuclear fuel in rockets have been dreamed up by the imaginative engineers who plan for space travel. One of their proposals is a nuclear reactor running a conventional electrical generator. The current from it ionizes atoms of some convenient element and expels them from the tail pipe. An "ionic motor" of this sort can run, theoretically, almost forever on a cupful of uranium...
...comes to more sophisticated Picto sentiments, th6 bracket is indispensable. ? J makes the substantive of a verb, i Qp to love ; [ (J J love. ^_ j means to symbolize. Thus it can be used in conjunction with p (flag) to mean nation, iPj , or in conjunction with d (the smallest element of a whole) to mean citizen, J «p I . Picto's vocabulary is kept as small as it is by the adroit combination of ideas. Thus, a garage is rendered in Picto as a house for autos, a restaurant as a house for eating, a movie theater...
...years was a member of the experimental Bauhaus movement in company with Lyonel Feininger, Josef Albers and Kandinsky. But the Bauhaus' dedication to the discipline of the machine did not alter Klee. In a Bauhaus prospectus he wrote defiantly: "Construction is not totality . . . intuition still remains an important element...
...Maverick was not doing well, but his Shanty I was running in front. Suddenly it belched to a crawl-out of the race with a broken supercharger. Heir to a $300 million cattle-and-oil fortune, Bill Waggoner had suddenly run out of the one element of hydroplane racing that is not for sale: luck. "A man has to be a goddamn fool to get mixed up in this business," he muttered sadly...