Word: max
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Frivolous Jumps. In the neatly appropriate year of 1900, a discovery was made that was to knock the props from under classical physics. In his Berlin laboratory, Max Planck, a 42-year-old German physicist, was trying to describe mathematically the emission of light by glowing bodies. No one had done it and Planck could not do it either-until, in a sort of desperation, he assumed that light does not flow in a smooth stream, as everyone supposed, but in tiny, indivisible bursts...
...Pook's Hill, H. G. Wells's The First Men in the Moon and W. W. Jacobs' "Night Watchman" stories; it gave a head start to such other up-&-coming writers and illustrators as P. G. Wodehouse, Agatha Christie, A. E. W. Mason, George Bernard Shaw, Max Beerbohm, Osbert Lancaster and Sidney Paget...
...nnhilde. The Met's other Brünnhilde, Astrid Varnay, was not available. Finally, at 4 p.m., someone recalled that the wife of new Viennese Baritone Ferdinand Frantz, who was scheduled to sing Wotan that night, had sung Brünnhilde in Vienna and Munich. Musical Director Max Rudolf picked up the phone and called Madame Frantz (stage name: Helena Braun...