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Word: floated (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...theory, Astronomy should be a breeze. Casual scientists could float through it without bumping even a minor air pocket, and come out the other side with a smattering of general education--if "Rules Relating to College Studies" were the only rules...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Astronomy | 4/28/1950 | See Source »

...Dali poke holes in his figures and make everything float? "Modern physics," the artist explained with a twitch of his delicate handlebar mustache, "has revealed to us increasingly the dematerialization which exists in all nature and that is the reason why the material body of my Madonna does not exist and why in place of a torso you find a tabernacle 'filled with Heaven.' But while everything floating in space denotes spirituality it also represents our concept of the atomic system-today's counterpart of divine gravitation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Toward Raphael | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

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