Search Details

Word: fell (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...most meaningful tribute to Einstein is entirely unplanned: the renaissance of interest in his scientific work. Before his death in 1955 at 76, Einstein had called himself a "museum piece," a fossil who had long since slipped out of the mainstream of physics. Indeed, his greatest work, general relativity, fell into an intellectual limbo. Explains University of Texas Physicist John Wheeler: "For the first half-century of its life, general relativity was a theorist's paradise but an experimentalist's hell. No theory was more difficult to test." Physicists turned to other concepts, mostly concerning atomic structure, that could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover: The Year of Dr. Einstein | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

...Dudley House Cooperative at 1705 Mass Ave., temperatures in some rooms fell below freezing as students shared four space heaters supplied by B & G and waited for a shipment of firewood...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Lengthy Deep-Cold Spell Snarls Heating and Pipes Throughout University | 2/15/1979 | See Source »

Crimson red was not the color of success at Hemenway Gym yesterday, even though it was Valentine's Day, as the Harvard women's squash team fell to Yale...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Yale Stops Racquetwomen In Key Ivy League Battle | 2/15/1979 | See Source »

...ranked Becky Tung, still hampered by strained ligaments and tendonitis, fell in three consecutive games. Freshman Cynthia Stanton, in the second spot, also succumbed without winning a single game...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Yale Stops Racquetwomen In Key Ivy League Battle | 2/15/1979 | See Source »

Nell Foreman played with five stitches above her left eye, a reminder of the injury she sustained against Penn Saturday. Foreman also failed to post a win and fell in three straight...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Yale Stops Racquetwomen In Key Ivy League Battle | 2/15/1979 | See Source »

Previous | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | Next