Word: maying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...serious operation and almost died. But I survived, and I thought, 'Look, Matisse isn't dead!' With this extra life I could do as I pleased. I could create what I'd been struggling all these years to create. My work may seem more joyful than in the past but it's exactly what I was trying to do 50 years ago. It has taken me that long to arrive at the stage where I can say what I want...
Just Riding By. However other newsmen may question Paul Presbrey's news-at-any-price philosophy, they agree that he has been uniquely consistent in following it. In 1936, when Presbrey was a 26-year-old cub on the old St. Paul Daily...
...German Philosopher Immanuel Kant had speculated in 1755 that the sun and its planets were formed by condensation out of a gaseous cloud. For a while astronomers supported Kant, but later his "nebula hypothesis" lost scientific favor. More modern astronomers, notably Sir James Jeans, have conceded that the sun may have been formed that way, but not the planets. To explain the planets, Jeans suggested that another star must have grazed the sun, pulling out a thread of sun-matter that gathered into beadlike planets...
...nonscientific people who preferred to believe that man and his earthly home are unique n the universe. Collisions or near-collisions between stars must be excessively rare. If it takes such a cosmic catastrophe ;o produce a planetary system, there is a good chance that man's earth may be the only chunk of matter with proper conditions for life to develop...
...catastrophe for the formation of planets, makes it much less likely that man is alone in the universe. The sun is an ordinary star, of very common size, temperature and chemical composition. If it has acquired planets in the normal course of its development, many millions of similar stars may have planets too. If so, there is a chance that high forms of life, perhaps higher than man, have developed on some of them...