Word: potently
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...previous century had seen such a potent interaction between the arts and technology. You have to go back to the invention of the printing press in the 1450s to find anything comparable. Now, seemingly overnight, machines and electronics were transforming virtually everything. Photography, an important 19th century invention, became almost a different medium in the 1920s and '30s with the combination of high-quality, handheld cameras, film on an advanceable roll, and the flashbulb. Photographers were free to roam the fields and streets. They could cover crimes and wars. Soft, pretty pictures gave way to a more spontaneous, realistic style...
Eight of the Crimson's 11 All-Ivy honorees will return for the 1999 season, including four of the squad's top five hitters from this year (Abeles, LaSovage, Rice and Amberg). Thoke has already established herself as a potent force on the mound as well--she led the Ivies in strikeouts this season with 165 Ks in 146 innings...
This is the world made for Truman--so serene it's spooky. And eventually, like the hero of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (that potent fable of '50s restlessness that was, in its way, the anti-Father Knows Best), Truman begins to suspect that perfection isn't all it's supposed...
There are risks involved in messing with the blood vessels. Sometimes angiogenesis is a good thing, especially during pregnancy. One potent anti-angiogenic being studied today is that old scourge thalidomide, which caused so many birth defects in the 1950s by cutting off the blood supply in developing fetuses...
...later sermon Gomes names fear as the culprit: "Everybody is fearful, terrified of some public or private demon...It is fear not only holds us together, but keeps us from being whole." On the threshold of a new millennium, Gomes worries that this sense of fear may be particularly potent. People are anxious that "There is a limitation to improvement. Our circumstances, instead of getting better, and better, may be getting worse and worse." But with the optimism that is the preacher's hallmark, Gomes offers his congregation an inoculation: emphasis that "you are not stuck in materialistic world...