Word: outerness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME! Irish Playwright Brian Friel, knowing that every man is his own toughest critic and most devoted fan, uses two actors to play the inner and outer selves of a youth caught between nostalgia and expectations before leaving for America...
Sinology to Space. Under the hard-boiled intelligence of Engineer Collbohm, a top War Department consultant during World War II, Rand has attracted a staff of nearly 1,200-including ranking authorities on subjects ranging from Sinology to outer space. The organization's first report in 1946 was a carefully reasoned study that demonstrated the feasibility of employing spaceships in weather forecasting and military reconnaissance. In June 1957, Rand warned the Air Force that the Russians would orbit their first satellite around Sept. 17, 1957. Sputnik went up on Oct. 4 of that year...
Mongolian Monitor. L'Équipe (meaning "team") is the world's finest sports newspaper. It devotes almost half its space to athletic events that take place outside France, offers coverage so comprehensive that it probably would not miss a pingpong championship between Inner and Outer Mongolia. The paper reports regularly on 15 major sports and faithfully follows 25 minor ones, including such little-played games as field hockey and volleyball. The only sports of any significance that L'Équipe does not cover are horse racing, which it opposes on moral grounds, plus British cricket, U.S. football...
...supernova's own gigantic size is its undoing. Astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar calculated that a star whose mass is greater than 1.44 times the sun's mass cannot follow normal stellar evolution. Over a few million years, burning hydrogen on the outer layers of such a star produces more and more helium at its core. The doomed star's interior shrinks rapidly; and the density of its core increases. As temperatures rise in the contracting core, the collected helium is converted into successively heavier elements, such as iron and gold, which crowd the lighter elements outward...
...tragedy was that he never grew. Earthly immortality is a pathetic mirage. Time will not stop. In an attempt to stop it, one merely stunts one's self. The ultimate victims of the Youth Cult are the young, some of whom believe that turning 25 is the outer limit of human obsolescence. The Youth Cult misleads them into thinking that license is freedom, that untutored whims are tastes, and that ever-jittering motions are deeds. Since it is the specific problem and task of middle-agers to induct the promising young into the society of civilized men, it might...