Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite a thorough search, there was no sign of a third body or of suspects. The FBI noted, however, that only someone from the area would probably be familiar with the location where the car was found, off the narrow logging roads and at a spot deep in the woods, where locals often dump trash. "We want resolution, and this brings us a step forward--this has been a fight," said Francis Carrington, Sund's father and head of Carrington Co., a Eureka-based real estate firm. The family had offered more than $300,000 reward for anyone with information...
...became so visible in so many places that the company advertised it as "the material of a thousand uses." It became the stuff of everything from cigar holders and rosary beads to radio housings, distributor caps and telephone casings. A 1924 TIME cover story on Baekeland reported that those familiar with Bakelite's potential "claim that in a few years it will be embodied in every mechanical facility of modern civilization...
Soon it dawned on a few insightful souls, Godel foremost among them, that this way of looking at things opened up a brand-new branch of mathematics--namely, metamathematics. The familiar methods of mathematical analysis could be brought to bear on the very pattern-sprouting processes that formed the essence of formal systems--of which mathematics itself was supposed to be the primary example. Thus mathematics twists back on itself, like a self-eating snake...
Godel, in thinking very carefully about this rather surreal scenario, soon realized that the property of being M.P. was not all that different from such familiar notions as "prime number," "odd number" and so forth. Thus earthbound number theorists could, with their standard tools, tackle such questions as, "Which numbers are M.P. numbers, and which are not?" for example, or "Are there infinitely many non-M.P. numbers?" Advanced math textbooks--on Earth, and in principle on Mars as well--might have whole chapters about M.P. numbers...
...sophomores incapable of doing anything remotely social on campus without bringing along their 16 closest friends. And then, of course, there are the "floaters," students whose friendships split along awkward fault lines, forcing them to jump into the cracks and "float" into a new House without the comfort of familiar faces. As the innards strewn across the Yard indicate, the process is a blast...