Word: existance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...energy which seem to guide it. Indeed it is only by analysis of its "pilot wave" that the speed and position of an electron can be determined, and then only probably, not certainly. Immaterial waves need not be tangled up with matter at all. Like radio waves, they can exist in or travel through nothingness...
...general Saturday's Children is about a family of drab but amiable nitwits, the Halevys, who exist in a railroad flat on the wrong side of Manhattan's subway tracks. In particular it is about the underprivileged romance of pretty Bobby Halevy (Anne Shirley) and Rims Rosson (John Garfield), a shy, lovable, half-educated, half-awake johnny who invents gadgets that never work, dreams of going to Manila to try to turn hemp into silk. Father Halevy (Claude Rains), a bookkeeper, has spent a lifetime working himself into an insecure rut at a mail-order house. Mother Halevy...
Sooner or later, whatever the earth produces it wrecks and reclaims. The wrecking job is done by an immense host of microorganisms. So it occurred to Dr. Rene Jules Dubos of the Rockefeller Institute that there might exist in the earth powerful microorganisms capable of attacking disease germs that prey on humanity...
There did exist, not a "jargon" invented by scientists, but an alphabet for recording the Navajo language-a competent language, incidentally, with a large vocabulary. The alphabet, worked out by scientists, was minutely accurate in catching every sound and intonation, but contained so many odd characters, special marks and accents as to be utterly unusable for ordinary purposes. Dr. Harrington and I were asked to work out an alphabet in which Navajo could be written understandably, using only what is to be found on the keyboard of a standard typewriter...
...display went a 4th-Century Sasanian palace hall, the like of which does not exist even in its native Persia; a mandapam (pillared hall) from a Vishnu temple which Philadelphia Socialite Adeline Pepper Gibson spirited out of India by junk in 1912; a lofty Ming hall from Peking, "the finest single architectural unit ever to leave China"; a dozen other galleries. All 15 were crowded with a superb collection of Oriental art that ranged from Persian rugs to Japanese prints...