Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Trying to explain the structure of atoms without understanding this mysterious binding force, says Dr. Bethe, is like figuring out the rules of a baseball game without seeing the ball. But he has a faint hope. The binding force has something to do with mesons, and knowledge of these elusive particles is accumulating rapidly...
...fascinated philosophers for thousands of years is how a complete organism develops out of a single fertilized egg cell. Biologist C. H. Waddington of the University of Edinburgh reports that it is a mystery still. The biologists can bother fertilized ova in all sorts of ways, but they cannot explain how the apparently simple cell can, all by itself, construct something as complicated as a whale...
That afternoon a startled young actress listened in saucer-eyed wonder as M. Maurice Goudeket explained that his wife, the great Colette, had personally picked her to play the lead in a Broadway play. A few weeks later, after an expensive exchange of cablegrams and consultations with Broadway Producer Gilbert Miller, Author Loos herself flew to London to confirm Colette's judgment. "I tried to explain to all of them that I wasn't ready to do a lead," said Audrey in New York last week, "but they didn't agree, and I certainly wasn...
Britain's Labor Party Leader Clement Attlee tried last week to explain why the Chinese Communists should be admitted to the U.N. Admission is not a privilege, he declared, but a recognition of fact. "The fact is that China is not governed by Chiang Kaishek, but by the present government." He was convinced that "generally speaking," the Communists would subscribe to U.N. principles...
...Szoke). Meanwhile, in Manhattan, the marchioness (the former Romaine Dahlgren Pierce ["Toodie"] Simpson, a Boston-bred divorcee) took legal steps leading to a divorce or separation suit. London reporters asked the marquess for comment on his wife's action, but it was too "difficult" for him to explain. As for Actress Bartok, he had met her a year ago, and "we . . . have been friendly ever since. That's all there is to it." Eva piped up: "I would like to tell you a lot about our friendship. Since I met the marquess . . . we have been great friends...