Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...class teacher practiced a unique style analysis that forced students to examine classical subjective literature, calculating the number of times each part of speech was used, making students aware of undesirable loose jargon and grandiose tendencies in much specialized work. Style analysis, former head section man for the option, Martin Robbins, said, forced the students to review their grammar and brought them closer to absorbing the gestures of each writer's style...
...Martin Feldstein, professor of Economics and a member of Carter's economic policy task force, says he believes that the role that all the task forces play in the formulation of policy initiatives will diminish as the campaign wears...
...Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. But even as engineers worked feverishly to correct the problem with the orbiter, the lander was performing perfectly, coasting through the thin Martian atmosphere to a landing only 32 seconds behind schedule. "It's a very interesting thing," commented Viking Project Manager James Martin. "The lander doesn't seem to need...
...years supports the truth of this statement, mathematicians have never been able to prove it for all cases. Hence there remained the gnawing feeling that there just might be one instance where, say, five colors were needed instead of only four. Indeed, when Scientific American's puckish columnist Martin Gardner last year announced that such a "counter example" had indeed been found, it stunned math buffs everywhere-until they realized the claim was an April Fool...
Emory University paid $1,750,000 for the collection, which Hartford decided to let go after it ceased training candidates for the ministry in 1972. The library was a stunning bargain; included are 1,239 individual writings by Martin Luther, printed in the 16th and 17th centuries, a considerable collection of Puritan writings from colonial New England, scores of rare hymnals, and a broad collection of Asian and African materials-though not Hartford's prestigious Islamic collection, which it is keeping. Average cost per book...