Word: elements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vast improvement over their predecessors. And--though I loathe comparisons--Richard Mathews surpasses Lester Rawlins, whom I considered the finest Fool I had ever seen. Not only has Mr. Mathews managed to make clear every pun, analogy, and double entente, but he has added to the character an element of such deep love that one can almost feel his own pain as he chastises, scolds, and warns his master...
...atom contains only one proton and one electron, which makes it the lightest element known to science. It is completely colorless, completely odorless. And it is that ultimate simplicity that has earned for hydrogen some of the most sophisticated jobs in modern science. Refrigerated into a liquid state, hydrogen is helping physicists to peer into the heart of the atom, to trace the fleeting histories of the smallest building blocks of matter. Space scientists are depending on it to launch the Apollo spacecraft that will take the first U.S. astronauts to the moon...
...buried 16 ft. below ground, was not damaged, and there was no danger of radioactivity. Still, the laboratory's new bubble chamber for the study of subnuclear particles lay twisted and scorched in the $1,000,000 wreckage. When all the evidence has been studied, the deceptively simple element may yet be exonerated. But significantly, when the accident occurred, the scientists were cautiously handling hydrogen, piping it into the 100-gal. bubble chamber...
...modern plays depend on banter between the on sustain the interest -- and Pinter is writing such dialogue. a play depends solely burlesque interchanges, some boring -- and even like Waiting for to drag in the second the amusement of this to wane. All of however, contain element of suspense, sheer terror which attention even when actual action is at a standstill...
...Much Magic. What has driven Catholic thinkers to a new way of looking at the Real Presence is dissatisfaction with the medieval way of stating the doctrine. Dutch Jesuit Piet Schoonenberg argues that transubstantiation overemphasizes a magical change in the bread and wine while ignoring an essential element in the mystery: the faith of the Believing Church, in which the action takes place. Concentration on what happens to the bread itself, says Dutch Capuchin Luchesius Smits, leads to such distortions of piety as the little girl's fear that eating ice cream right after her first Communion would "make...