Word: numbered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mendeleev's 19th century periodic table of chemical elements. To compile it, Grebe assigns g° to the electron and positron as his base. In turn, the various exponents of g for the other particles yield a set of symmetrical relations. These relations indicate the presence of a number of proportional dimensions for solids in the ratio of two, three and four. When...
...vogue in controversy runs to turtlenecked highbrows and Angry Young Men, the latest brouhaha is whirling around an unlikely book by an unlikelier author: a mystery shocker called Dr. No, by an uppercrust Tory named Ian Fleming. The book marks the sixth appearance of James Bond, 007 by code number, a deadpan British secret-service agent with high tastes and low instincts. With the help of an estimated 1,250,000 British readers, Bond has boosted Creator Fleming high on the bestseller lists and into the gunsights of outraged critics. They blast him as a kind of Mickey Spillane...
...suit in 1952. At Goldeneye, his luxurious Jamaica residence, Clubman Fleming has been host to his convalescing friend, Sir Anthony Eden. His critics find his shockers all the more unspeakable because he is so much a member of The Establishment.* Yet Fleming is no Spillane. His closest U.S. opposite number, Raymond (The Big Sleep) Chandler calls him "masterly." And Novelist Elizabeth Bowen says: "Here's magnificent writing...
Dial M for Methodism. In Tucson, Ariz., Mrs. Robert Poston dialed a telephone number, heard a man's voice pleading for help, called police, who dialed the same number, got the "Dial-a-Prayer" service of the Catalina Methodist Church...
This was the first varsity win over Penn in three years. The Quakers have an exceptionally strong team this year, with a season record of nine and two. Columbia, whose record is 4-4, has little golf talent except for their number one man, and is playing league golf for the first time this year...