Word: nothingness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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An outfielder in his college days at Michigan State, Dr. Briggs left nothing to chance in his experiments. He measured speed and spin in the National Bureau of Standards wind tunnel. For live experiments, Dr. Briggs measured the curve-throwing ability of the Washington Senators' staff in Griffith Stadium...
¶ Sceptre, Britain's challenger for the America's Cup, which was soundly thrashed by the U.S.'s Columbia off Newport last September, was sold at a cut-rate price (estimate: less than $42,000) to six Scottish friends of Designer David Boyd who are bent on...
Lithuanian-born Rabbi Guterman, 75, who had to cut down on his habitual 15 hours a day of study, describes himself as nothing but a "painter and decorator." Says he: "The paint and the paper are there. I only mix the paint properly and pick out the wallpaper that will...
Victory Means Nothing. Like wounded animals, three noble German brothers drag themselves home to their Hessian castle at the close of World War II. The eldest heals his wounds by charity, tending the displaced persons who occupy the castle. The second heals himself by husbandry, tending the displaced soil and...
What Amadeus sees is, of course, precisely what Author Wiechert saw in his own closing years. Defeat or victory in battle means "nothing or next to nothing," because today both victors and defeated share equally "the appalling fear of the terrible loneliness of the human race." Man's tie...