Word: singularity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brightness of the new comet is 250 times dimmer than the dimmest object visible to the naked human eye. It has no tail, no central nucleus, and it is probably receding from the earth. But in the history of astronomy, it has a singular distinction: it was found by a 19-year-old lathe operator, chief support of a fatherless family, who made his own telescope...
...dreary" Boston newspaper situation). However, unless St. George is also a schizophrenic, how could he call Mickey Mantle an "unfrocked fink"? In one of his July columns, Mr. Frazier wrote: "Mantle has such grit and gallantry as to suffuse the summery sarabands of baseball with so singular a splendor." The column ends with: "I would that my sons grow up to have the frankincense and myrrh of such magic." Please explain...
...barges and 4,100 towboats that ply the inland waterways are less gaudy and singular but more practical than the old sternwheelers. Today's towboats (which actually push rather than pull their tows) have radar, depth recorders, six rudders and two propellers. Their diesel engines generate as much as 9,000 h.p., and can handle strings of barges longer than the Queen Mary...
...With each experiment the Canton-born professor of biochemistry and endocrinology has come closer than any man before him to explaining how the front half of the human pituitary, the body's master gland, controls so many functions through the hormones it manufactures. Because his success represents a singular medical triumph, Dr. Li last week was awarded the $10,000 Albert Lasker Basic Research Award...
...avoid offering clues of his own concerns. So far, however, Salinger's work is faintly reminiscent of a psychological test, revealing the story-teller by the way in which he unfolds his story rather than by any message that he means to convey. To interpret Salinger demands a singular sensitivity to the way in which style dominates content and a very direct perception of a most unusual writer. I would not claim this skill, and neither, in fact, do the contributors to this collection...