Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weeks at Harvard lecturing and meeting with researchers, has devoted most of his life to studying these gashes in the fabric of space and time. I've always wanted to understand why the world is what it is and how it works," says Hawking, now a successor to Sir Isaac Newton as Lucastan Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University. Since, according to Hawking, "we already know completely the laws that govern normal matter," his goal is to extend such knowledge to extreme conditions. Nothing is more extreme than a black hole...
...Downing Street, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher put on her brightest smile for the tourists. It was, after all, nearly the end of one of Britain's bitterest winters, and she had reason to think that sunnier days might be ahead for her government. Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Geoffrey Howe had just presented the House of Commons with a new budget. It shrewdly offered a little something for everyone, effectively assuaging dissidents within the Tories' own ranks and taking the steam out of expected Labor opposition. A few days later, a new Market and Opinion Research International poll...
...from the author's diaries. Like Waugh, young Ryder exhibits a monkish passion for drawing and illuminated texts. Unlike the grave, sentimental narrator of Brideshead, Charles the teen-ager can sound as curmudgeonly as his middle-aged maker: "I think the invention of movable type was a disaster, sir. It destroyed calligraphy." There is a dearth of incident, and most of the schoolboy repartee reads like a twit's guide to the jargon of the better classes...
...Sir Humphry Davy
...though many other poets, including WH. Auden, have attempted clerihews, no one has matched the chemistry of the young Bentley on Sir Humphry Davy. For example...