Word: eon
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...presently 39. I shared my disappointment with a companion, but her reverence was incorrigible. Others, too, seemed mesmerized and hypnotized by a cosmic aura of awe and amazement. I began to feel a little inadequate. Perhaps I was missing something. Perhaps I was forsaken a once-in-an-eon opportunity that I would later lament. Or, perhaps the emperor was as naked as the day he was born...
...their abundance in seawater - carbon 12, which is preferentially taken up by algae during photosynthesis, and carbon 13, its slightly heavier cousin. By sampling ancient limestones, Knoll and his colleagues have determined that the ratio of carbon 12 to carbon 13 remained stable for most of the Proterozoic Eon, a boggling expanse of time that stretched from 2.5 billion years ago to the end of the Vendian. But at the close of the Proterozoic, just prior to the Cambrian explosion, they pick up a dramatic rise in carbon 13 levels, suggesting that carbon 12 in the form of organic material...
Seventy-five years is an eon in pop culture. In 1921 movies were silent, radio was an infant, television a dream, alcohol consumption a crime. There were few awards in fields of frivol: Oscars, Tonys, Grammys didn't exist. But some people in Atlantic City thought they should give a prize and a title to a pretty girl. The town was the East Coast's premier seaside resort, so she probably ought to wear a bathing suit. And hoping to extend the summer season, the pageant's creators scheduled it for after Labor...
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