Word: emblem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This habit of recasting physics in new ways, the emblem of an insatiable intellect, has led him into the depths of his science at almost breakneck speed. When he was just starting high school in his native New York, he read unceasingly in physics. "I began to read systematically through the branch libraries uptown, gradually working my way downtown to the Public Library on 42nd Street." By the time Schwinger had graduated from high school, he had read thoroughly in atomic physics and quantum mechanics. His training in mathematics had been to read all that the Encyclopedia Britannica offered...
Impartially stamped on cocktail glasses and diplomas, Veritas is the familiar emblem of Harvard College. But acceptance of this Latin noun came only after a haphazard beginning and two centuries of neglect and controversy...
From Johannesburg, South Africa, Correspondent Alexander Campbell reports that of the 15,000 miles he has flown this year, the strangest trip was from the Gold Coast capital Accra to the Nigerian capital Lagos: "I flew by West African Airways, whose emblem is a flying elephant. The passengers were mostly natives. The men wore fezzes and flowing robes, or sun helmets and white shirts hanging outside their pants. The women wore print dresses, with the luggage balanced on their heads and babies slung on their backs. The plane was also packed with freight, including crates of squawking chickens. This packed...
...paneled Paris office overlooking the Etoile last week sat a grey-haired, lean and elegant Frenchman, chain-smoking Havana cigars. In his buttonhole, Pierre Wertheimer, 65, wore the emblem of the Legion of Honor; on his glass-topped desk stood row after row of perfume bottles and boxes of cosmetics. They, too, were emblems of achievement. For Pierre Wertheimer, a man so shy that few have ever heard of him (he permits no photographs), is the world's perfume king. He owns the Bourjois and Chanel companies, bosses 3,000 employees in plants from Rochester, N.Y. to London, sells...
...Egypt celebrated the first anniversary of Naguib's "Blessed Movement" in fine, military style. For two hours, crisp recruits tramped down Cairo's tapestried streets, while helicopters scattered Naguib posters from above. Next day 4,000 Liberation Rally guerrillas snapped past beneath their death's-head emblem, and later chanted Allah Akhbar, Allah Akhbar. Then paratroops, Egypt's first, jumped into Heliopolis race track. "We have the means," cried Naguib, "to throw the British out of the Canal Zone any time we want." At 11:05 on Liberation night, the time the army moved last year...