Word: fleetingness
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The fleeting, telltale smile crossed Stephen's face-and the counselor had made the big breakthrough in Stephen's case.
This sort of reasoning is as old as Malthus, and Darwin knows the arguments that are commonly used against it. One of them is to point out that the earth's population has increased enormously since the time of Malthus, but that much of it is better fed now...
One reason why such things happen, says the Bulletin, is that the McCarran Act makes consular officers the judges of scientific visitors. The consuls realize their inability to estimate a scientist's politics, but they also realize that a no is safer than a yes. If they let the...
Dartmouth beat Harvard to the ball throughout the varsity game, and kept pressing the play in the Crimson zone almost constantly, though Harvard gave fleeting indications that it could put together a passing attack. As soon as Harvard gained possession of the ball, however, it usually lost it again to...
In Los Angeles last week, another memory patient was traveling an even more difficult road. Melvin Eugene Hewitt, 28, injured in a barroom brawl last year, was saved by a quick-thinking doctor who massaged Hewitt's "still" heart for 15 minutes. But he may never recover from the...