Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...paralleled the rather raw expressionism of his countryman, Van Gogh, until he was 37. Then, influenced by cubism, he began simplifying what he saw to horizontal and vertical lines. Flowering apple trees, building fronts, jetties into the sea soon dissolved into what he called "plus-and-minus" rhythms. He wrote that he was searching for a higher "reality detached from the transitory reality of forms...
Unfortunately, however, the four remaining opponents--Gov. Dummer Academy, Dartmouth, Andover, and Yale--will probably offer the Yardlings their toughest competition all season and may add a few more minus signs to the balance book. Andover and Yale especially promise to challenge the team's solvency...
...Even the largest ship is lost at sea; you, lost with it, are thrown on your resources. Your life becomes more elemental; not necessarily more primitive, as though you had gone camping, but more emotionally elemental. I noticed this first with my reactions toward others: they became plus-or-minus affairs, "I like" or "I don't like." You know no one completely or for very long, and yet nobody just brushes by, as in normal life. All you can learn is one facet quickly and deeply: it is all you have time...
...Omega-Minus Signature. The unknown particle predicted by the eightfold way was named omega minus, and both CERN Laboratory in Geneva and Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island started elaborate campaigns to find it. Brookhaven's apparatus was built around the 33-bev (billion electron volt) Alternating Gradient Synchrotron, and it used a line of magnets and electrostatic separators 400 ft. long to isolate negative K-mesons. Ten of the K-mesons were allowed to enter Brookhaven's 80-in. liquid-hydrogen bubble chamber every 2½ seconds, and pictures were taken of the results. Two pictures...
...Omega-minus particles will never be made into rocket fuel or nuclear weapons. Their life (10 -10 sec., as predicted) is too short. But their discovery by a guiding theory has given an enormous boost to physics. Now that the eightfold way has been checked by this striking success, it can be used as a trusty tool in the search for more discoveries...