Word: lema
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...common people were trampled to death, includes a brief account of Marie Scheikévitch's marriage and divorce, but is memorable for its portraits of celebrities, particularly that of Marcel Proust. Marie Scheikévitch knew Sarah Bernhardt, Anatole France, was on intimate terms with Jules Lemaître and other are eminant, but her friendship with Proust was particularly close. She presents him as warm, readily animated, generous, possesing a gift for mimcry. She says that after he had been malicious about some mutual acquaintance he would return the next day and compensate for his malice...
...students at Cambridge. Most of them were alraedy familiar with the facts behind the cosmic picture he drew. Dr. Einstein in his original relativity theory stated that space is curved by the matter it contains, that the size of the finite universe is dependent upon matter. Abbé Lemaître, Belgian mathematician, investigated Einstein's universe, found that it would be unstable, would necessarily either expand to infinity or contract to a point. Immediately astronomers looked at the stars, measured the amount of spectral shift in starlight (the Doppler effect). They found most starlight shifted towards...