Word: primordiale
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"Creation" is easy to read because Gamow is skillful at finding simple, apt illustrations for complex ideas. One good method for determining the age of rocks is based on the transmutation of heavier radioactive into isotopes of lead. Gamow likens the lead accumulations to dung deposits in a corral full...
"Science has provided proof of the beginning of time, and the reasoning mind asks instinctively what preceded time?" The answer is a "creative omnipotence whose power . . . called to existence, through an act of love, matter and exuberant energy. Modern science bears witness to that primordial order of 'Let there...
Goodfriend's moral is more subtle than that, however. Taking us through the squalor of China, his pictures show us the intelligence, the assiduity, the pride, sensitivity, and courage of ordinary people, and consequently the mixed feelings with which they have received our generosity. At this point we find two...
All the pleasures of civilization which returned to Hanover, New Hampshire, once again this weekend for the 41st Annual Dartmouth Winter Carnival had to contend with the primordial elements last night as temperatures dropped to 25 and 30 degrees below zero. One effect of the freeze cut the usual eight...
The community is not as primordial as the individual. Society is erected on nothing but the sacrifices each of us makes of his individualism in order to enjoy the supposed advantages of social living. Man, in common with the other animals, is a biologic unit and his civilization is a...