Word: modeles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Campbell added that a Russian-Czech effort to establish a Slavonic Studies seminar, patterned on the American model, would be encouraged in every...
...something vastly more important: Planck's "universal constant" (6.624 x 10 -27 erg-seconds), now considered one of the three fundamental figures in the universe.* Planck's constant enabled Einstein to conceive the "photon" (particle of radiation). It also made possible Niels Bohr's model of the atom. It turned up in spectroscopy, in the study of X rays, in electronics. Upon it is based the whole science of quantum (wave) mechanics...
London's 18th Century "bored and witless fashionables" delighted in the lectures of a quack named "Doctor" Graham. For his lecture on The Female, Graham used a half-clad model called the Goddess of Health (she was the beauty who became Lady Hamilton). For another, on Earth-Bathing, he sat naked in a pit of earth while explaining how much better it made his skin and blood feel. The big feature was the Celestial Bed, which would "rectify such physical impediments as impotence and sterility." To use it for a night, with unascertained results, a childless duke paid Graham...
Icebreaker. With a proud blare of horns, Packard Motor Car Co. last week drove out its new cars, thus became the first motormaker to put 1948 models on the market. The new models were radically different from the '47; gone was the distinctive Packard hood, the company's trademark for more than 40 years. Packards now have rounded hoods and wide, square bodies, forecast by the '48 convertible model put out last spring. Although some models, which range in price from $2,125 to $4,668, will cost more than their predecessors, two of them will...
...have been before or since," the hero myth got off to a head start. It dominated Lincoln literature until the end of the 19th Century. Josiah Holland's Life, which appeared within a year of Lincoln's death plugged the theme that Lincoln was model youth and had made the grade through pure idealism. Its sale of more than 100,000 copies indicated to many royalty-conscious writer how the average reader liked his Lincoln served-only the palatable facts, well garnished with folklore and parsley...