Word: phasing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Major General William Frische Dean drove the 44th Division hard through Mannheim and Weinheim; then, swinging south toward Austria, the 44th took Lorch, Ulm (where Napoleon had routed 50,000 Austrians), Memmingen and Kempten, and cleared the Fern Pass. Obviously, the war was in its last phase, but strapping Bill Dean would not relax. He called in his regimental commanders and told them: "Our business is fighting. We will keep on fighting until we get the official word that the war has ended...
...most interesting part of his will was the phase which asked his successors to set up courses "More erudite and particular corresponding to the age and wants of the age." By not limiting strictly the type of course, Lowell made it possible for the present Commission to give such courses as Economics. English Composition, French, and Fine Arts. Only for these courses the student could be asked to pay. "Each lecturer may be allowed by the Trustee to receive a small sun from each scholar, who can afford it, not exceeding the value of two bushels of wheat...
...Fritz Zernike, 65, of Groningen, The Netherlands, won the Nobel Prize in physics for his invention of the phase contrast microscope. Ordinary microscopes work by shooting light through the objects to be examined. If some of the light is absorbed or reflected, the object shows up as a dark area against a bright background. The trouble is that many microscopic things, especially living cells and organisms, are almost perfectly transparent. Unless they are stained, which generally kills them, they do not show up well...
...Zernike's microscope works on a different principle. The material in even the most transparent organism generally differs in density from the fluid around it, and light travels at slightly different speed through materials of different density. The phase contrast microscope contains special screens that make the speed difference visible. Transparent amoebae and bacilli, unstained and still kicking vigorously, show up well in its field...
...filthy as a tramp. I [was kept] under the constant surveillance of a guard who was never more than perhaps ten yards away, and who at night would awaken me at least hourly by shining his flashlight in my eyes until I woke up ... During the exhaustion phase. I was made to write continuously, over a period of about three weeks, from early morning until dark, always against a deadline, under pressure of two interrogators working on me simultaneously, writing largely on matters of military insignificant nature, such as our system of decorations and medals, or on out-of-date...