Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are a great many melodramatically effective scenes in this tale about a blind young man, Donato, who falls desperately in love with a married woman and becomes entangled in another form of blindness-jealousy. But the impact is marred by banalities of speech ("You know we can't go on like this") and the hero's unsympathetic character. For Donato seems not so much a good man tragically crippled by the loss of sight as a psychopath who happens to be blind...
...have been a single complex molecule or a large cluster of them. This tiny, nameless primogenitor of all living matter may have used some primitive kind of photosynthesis to reproduce itself. Or perhaps it merely picked up smaller molecules in a series of random accidents. Dr. Calvin does not know...
...extreme flexibility and extreme rigidity. So Newman has arbitrarily coined the Ruly word resilrig to cover the whole scale, and has added such prefixes as sli (slightly) and mb (substantially). In Ruly English, a bridge girder would be sliresilrig and a watch spring subresilrig. A properly trained computer would know the meaning exactly. It would not be confused by the fact that in unruly English a very flexible bridge is not nearly as flexible as a very rigid watch spring...
...needs more capital. On its side, General Telephone needs a bigger base in the electronics field, anticipating the day when telephone service will dispense with some land lines and electromechanical switching equipment, take to radio and other electronic equipment. In April 1957 the companies reached the "getting to know you" stage when General Telephone President Donald C. Power, 58, went on Sylvania's board. In the merged General Telephone & Electronics Corp., Power will be chairman and chief executive officer; Sylvania's President Don G. Mitchell, 53, will be president...
...firm willing to take a chance on it. But Bookman Minton says he was not aware of Lolita until Reader Ridgewell brought it to his attention. Said Rosemary, happily swizzling a vodka on the rocks: "I thought Nabokov had a very interesting way of writing, very, you know-crystalline...