Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...neutrino is abolished, physics may be threatened by a more sweeping revolution. Physicists would balk at admitting that matter or energy just disappears. They would try to explain where matter or energy goes to, and the search might reveal a new world of physics...
...bibliography of American history compiled by six distinguished Harvard professors, it would earn loud, professional acclaim, for it will save historians thousands of hours of digging in years to come. But because it is dedicated primarily to the beginner in history, it has even wider usefulness. Preliminary essays explain the changing roles of the historians through the years, while others list trade secrets of the profession: where to find material, how to evaluate and take notes on it; how to organize, write, and even sell a book...
...boredom, it was cold comfort to realize that they had merely seized on topics that failed to interest him. On the right subject, apparently, Panyushkin could be fascinating. "He is a clever and attractive person," said ex-MVDman Khokhlov in Bonn last week, "and he knows how to explain to you the right way to kill a man with poison bullets...
...task force. From the nearest of 28 Wells offices, a Wells representative telephones a group of church leaders an invitation to lunch. The lunch is "complimentary," and the informal job of persuasion that the Wellsman does over coffee is known as the "Complimentary Conference." Its object is to explain the "Wells Way" and to convince the churchmen that Wells does not go in for high-pressure methods, just efficiency...
...airfields around the world. Morrison was the driving force behind Hoover Dam; he was part of the combine that built the string of Navy airfields across the Pacific during World War II. Like many Americans, he thinks of nothing but work, and he has a simple adage to explain his passionate absorption. "A man's worth," he says, "is counted in the things he creates for the betterment of his fellow...