Word: hardheadedness
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Dressed warmly, his radio turned low, Astronomer Gustaf Strömberg of the Mount Wilson Observatory spends night after night looking up at a great curved slit of the heavens. Born at Gothenburg, Sweden 57 years ago, a student of physics, mathematics and celestial mechanics, listed and starred (voted outstanding...
Science popularizers like to point out with bated breath that there is enough atomic energy locked in a cupful of water to drive a big liner across the Atlantic. To hardheaded physicists, the idea of releasing and harnessing this energy was a wild dream. Then, early in 1939, Hahn and...
Problem. Hardheaded diplomats deplored the rocketing headlines over the case of City of Flint. U. S. diplomatic history is crammed with such cases; the U. S. has an impressive record of skill in litigation over them. The likelihood that the future will see more important issues made it desirable that...
Early this year Major James R. Randolph, U. S. Army Ordnance Reserve, predicted in Army Ordnance that rockets would eventually assume a major role as carriers of high explosives. Hardheaded Major Randolph declared that "in the present state of the art, there probably would be no great difficulty in equaling...
No exception to the Simon & Schuster rule, Wallace Brockway and Herbert Weinstock's Men of Music, was deliberately modeled on a previous success,Thomas Craven's Men of Art. To write it, the publishers hired no established bigwig of professional music criticism, but a couple of relative unknowns...