Word: farnsworth
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Deciding who got those assignments took some creative thought. Elmer-DeWitt was determined to find writers who brought a special expertise to their subject and could also produce graceful prose. NEIL POSTMAN for example, who wrote on TV pioneer Philo Farnsworth, is the author of Amusing Ourselves to Death, an acclaimed study of the impact of television on society. RICHARD RHODES, who profiled nuclear physicist Enrico Fermi, wrote a Pulitzer-prizewinning tome on the making of the atom bomb. Paleoanthropologist DONALD JOHANSON, who discovered the fossil called Lucy, had a long and bumpy relationship with the Leakey family and used...
...century will also be remembered for its brilliant tinkerers. The ability to transcend gravity, brought about by folks from the Wright brothers to Robert Goddard, affected the way we live as much as Einstein's ability to figure out what gravity actually is. Philo Farnsworth's ability to turn electrons into television images was likewise as influential as figuring out what electrons actually are. Indeed, our century may be noted most for those who went out to their garages (metaphorically, at least) and helped bring us televisions and transistors, plastics and penicillin, computers and the World Wide...
Read Forrest, read. Associate professor of English at Providence College Forrest Gander reads from his poetry tonight. His collections include "Rush to the Lake" and "Lynchburg". A Reception will follow in Farnsworth Room. Woodberry Poetry, Forum Room, Lamont Library. 495-2452. 5:30 p.m. FREE...
...Patricia Farnsworth, an attorney for 7-Eleven in Massachusetts, offered a more conservative estimate, setting the transfer date at some point before...
...Farnsworth, the key issue is the transfer of Christy's liquor license to 7-Eleven. "We can't move until the transfer of the liquor license has been approved," she said...