Word: lies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...progressive North Carolina, farmers are delighted with their new agriculture. Once abandoned farms have been turned into terraced grain fields. Said Farmer L. O. Page, who goes in for strip cropping: ''Every time it rained, I used to lie awake nights wondering what part of the farm would be washed away in the morning. These nights I sleep like a kitten. I know those meadow strips will catch and hold the water...
...mathematics. In his third year, he took six courses and attended four more (normal quota: five). He liked exams-"the definiteness and excitement"-and got A's. One Oppenheimer remark is a Harvard legend: "It was so hot today the only thing I could do all afternoon was lie on my bed and read Jeans's Dynamical Theory of Gases...
...reporter who asked him the bomb's "limitations," Oppenheimer replied: "The limitations lie in the fact that you don't want to be on the receiving end." He is still convinced that an international program is essential, and for the best of selfish reasons: "Our atomic monopoly is like a cake of ice melting...
...Best of Times is his description of a journey through Europe, for Holiday magazine, in 1946-47. It is a mixture of Europe recalled and Europe revisited - a nostalgic, often beautiful restatement of things that have survived, and a horrified reporting of things that now lie in ruin. Like the vivid paintings and drawings that accompany them, the numerous anecdotes carry a rich embroidery of Bemelmanly fantasy...
...rich coming again to the magic mountain from the four corners of the world. "The smoke from the disinfecting plant drifts up the side of a hill, and this Grand Hotel fashion of luxurious dying away from home is sadder than any other I have seen. The graves here lie in greater and more aching lonesomeness than soldiers' graves, in foreign lands...