Word: fleetingness
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Like a dentist trying to get his pliers into the mouth of a terrified, wriggling patient, Louis stalked around the ring watching the bobbing head and flailing elbows of Uzcudun. waiting for the moment when the Spaniard's jaw would offer a fleeting target. The moment finally arrived. The...
Argon, krypton, xenon, neon, helium and niton are called ''the noble gases" because, like supercilious bluebloods, they disdain to enter into chemical compounds with other substances. As long ago as 1896 noble argon was thought to have been caught in a fleeting intimacy with water, but that and...
The plan includes extensive planting of frost-resisting crops of the sort developed by the late Ivan Michurin, the Burbank of Russia. A start has already been made with tomatoes, cucumbers and lettuce grown under glass at Khibina, inside the Arctic Circle, and with potatoes and cabbage that ripen outdoors...
Died. William De Wolf Hopper, 77, oldtime actor; after long illness (heart disease); in Kansas City, where he had lately been mildly successful as a radio commentator at symphony concerts. New York-born, trained for law, he became a professional actor at New Haven in 1879, played with the Barrymores...
In such comments as in the long discussion of sex as a residue that fills a great part of Vol. II, irreverent readers may get more than a fleeting glimpse of a great thinker in his more human and homely role as a cranky old professor, may echo with amusement...