Word: millionths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Colliding Galaxies. Ryle, a scholar with Hoyle at Cambridge University, bases his theory on recent findings of radio astronomy, the delicate discipline that measures celestial radio signals as faint as a hundred-millionth of the power of a TV signal. Working with signals from 1,936 sources, Ryle notes that 30 come from within the earth's galaxy. He postulates that the remaining, signals come from far beyond the limits of the galaxy and are caused, in fact, by the intermeshing of other galaxies...
...cocktail aeon in the Elysian Fields, and the composers gathered at Calliope's. "Let whoever will make a nation's laws," said someone for the millionth time, "if I can make its songs." There was a silence. "Who makes Amer ica's songs these days?" asked Stephen Foster. George Gershwin removed his cigar. "No one you know," he said. "Or probably ever will." "It depends what you mean by the word song," observed Jerome Kern mildly...
...chlorpromazine and Frenquel, and can snap a patient out of an artificial psychosis within minutes.) On a Revolving Cloud. Among a dozen U.S. medical teams researching LSD, one is headed by Dr. Fabing at Cincinnati's Christ Hospital. It takes, he found, only about one seven-hundred-millionth of a healthy young man's weight in LSD to produce a model psychosis lasting five to ten hours. In experiments recorded by a movie camera (see cut}, a psychology student volunteer, age 23, took 100 micro-grams and wrote afterward: "I had very little by way of visual...
...still an inspiration, or at least a consolation: one of the most intricate of modern jazzmen, Pianist Dave Brubeck, played a tune at Manhattan's Basin Street that only two members of the audience recognized as Stardust, while in the dance hall around the corner, the ten-millionth blonde said. "Oooooh, listen, honey. They're playing our song...
...When the millionth Volkswagen beetled off a West German assembly line this month, Volkswagen workers were treated to 40,000 liters of beer, a cancan act from Paris and a speech frowning on the 40-hour week. "Work is much more satisfying than idleness," said Volkswagen President Heinz Nordhoff (TIME, Feb. 15, 1954). "It is not without good reason that the cycle of six working days and one Sunday has been in existence for thousands of years. No doubt, a Saturday off would be a nice gift to many but a curse to others. Most people live only to escape...