Word: miltonic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hubble and his assistant, Milton Humason, began measuring the distances to these receding nebulae and found what is now known as Hubble's Law: the farther away a galaxy is from Earth, the faster it's racing away. Could it be that the universe as a whole is rapidly expanding? That conclusion was extraordinary, almost mind-blowing, yet seemed inescapable...
Surely your photograph of Shalit was intended to evoke titters, as it shows her reclining on a sofa, the defender of feminine modesty happily fondling her pussycat Milton (for Friedman), thereby doubly prim about love and money. I espy antifeminist symbolism. PHILIP M. RIDEOUT New York City...
...ride on the St. Charles Avenue streetcar takes visitors toward the French Quarter. The renowned Milton H. Latter Memorial Library at Soniat and St. Charles Avenue, which is on the way, is where Toole shelved books as a teen. With its crystal chandeliers, opulent ceiling murals and manicured grounds, this library takes reading to new heights of elegance...
...talking jokes and little more. Judge glaringly neglects these personages, especially Gibbons' buddies at Initech, Samir (Ajay Naidu) and the nominally cursed Michael Bolton (David Herman). The cast of Office Space is, essentially, a cast of cartoon characters or caricatures, only two of which arguably come off: Lumberg and Milton (Steven Root), a pathetic co-worker at Initech who is bound for disgruntled postal worker or serial killer status...
Researchers hope it won't take too long to convince doctors that they can safely prescribe beta-blockers for congestive heart failure. "Fewer than 5% of these patients are now on beta-blockers," says Dr. Milton Packer, professor of medicine at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City. "But if we could get 75% to 90% of them on the drugs, we'd be saving tens of thousands of lives...