Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...question not of where but of when. That brief period in the morning from dawn until everybody wakes up offers a new and different world unknown to most of us-serene yet vibrant, peaceful yet alive, free of the hostilities of the strange or the pressures of the familiar...
...cavalry doctor with the 11th Cuirassiers during World War I, Raymond Duchamp-Villon knew equine anatomy well. As a sculptor, and one of the triumvirate of brothers that included Painter Jacques Villon and Marcel Duchamp, a founder of Dada, he was familiar with the idea that the horse gave aristocratic stature to its rider and had long been the very symbol of man in power. With the beginning of World War I, Duchamp-Villon foresaw that the power of the horse would metamorphose into machine power. The result was his Large Horse...
Time to Go. Bowman began to dream. And his was a dream familiar to newsmen everywhere: he would buy himself a small-town newspaper and become a country editor, writing whatever he pleased and raising his family in a pure, pastoral setting. Unlike so many of his colleagues, though, Bowman was determined to turn his dream into reality. In 1960, he went into debt to buy an abandoned 67-acre farm in Washington County, Va., an area known for antique shops and country hams, hurley tobacco and beef cattle, spoon bread and purple, mist-hung hills. Five years later...
...figure in the combine, should follow Old Harry into voluntary retirement. Instead, Banking and Currency Chairman Robertson years' campaigned on the strength of his 20 years' seniority in the Senate. Wearing the traditional white linen suit favored by Old Harry, he stumped the state making florid (and familiar) speeches denouncing the evils of big government...
Subatomic World. Though SLAC's 20 BEV output is exceeded by the more familiar synchrotrons-devices that accelerate atomic particles by whirling them in a circular path-linear acceleration has several advantages. The beam is easier to control, more accessible for experimentation and bombards a target with more particles per second -increasing the probability of particle interaction. Even more important, circular accelerators cannot impart energies of more than about ten BEV to electrons which radiate away much of their energy when traveling in a circular path. Synchrotrons and other circular accelerators such as cyclotrons and betatrons are usually used...