Word: ernsts
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...Mass is that property of a body which resists change of motion. On the surface of the earth, it is closely equivalent to weight. Austrian Physicist Ernst Mach (1838-1916), who gave his name to the principle, is better known today for Mach numbers, a method of measuring speed in multiples of the speed of sound...
...called The New Hermeneutic (Harper & Row; $5), the second in a series devoted to a dialogue between Continental and American theologians on major religious issues. Edited by James M. Robinson and John B. Cobb Jr. of the Southern California School of Theology, the book contains essays on hermeneutic by Ernst Fuchs of Marburg and Gerhard Ebeling of Zurich. Their contributions are analyzed by three topflight U.S. thinkers: Amos Wilder of Harvard Divinity School, Robert Funk of Drew, and John Dillen-berger of San Francisco Theological Seminary...
Copper Blue Blood. While Professor Ernst Bayer of Tubingen University was still a graduate student, he began to study the ability of marine animals to concentrate some of the rare metals found in sea water. The sea squirt, Phallusia mamillata, for example, has 1,000,000 times more vanadium in its blood than the water it lives in; the deep blue blood of the octopus has 100,000 times as much copper. If sea squirts and octopuses can do the trick, asked Bayer, why shouldn't human chemists...
...LIED VON DER ERDE (Deutsche Grammophon) is Gustav Mahler's masterpiece. The song cycle is a rippling reflection of elegiac Chinese moods that now and then surges up to a torrential "Yes!" This version, with Mezzo Soprano Nan Merriman, Tenor Ernst Hafliger and Conductor Eugen Jochum leading the Concertgebouw Orchestra, even surpasses the excellent recording made by Merriman and Hafliger with the Concertgebouw sev en years...
...Ernst appealed to the lawyers, as the only group able to accomplish the job, to lead the people back to the courts and reason. The same professional pride was evident in the speeches of the other two men, Walter E. Craig, president of the American Bar Association, and Vern Countryman, visiting professor...