Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even without Coulter, the defense is strong: Olympic candidate Lou Preston, Dick Greeley, At Key, and Paul Coste form a solid nucleus, while behind them the goal will have capable protection by Captain Jack Lavalle or Bill Yetman...
...more science looks at solid matter, the less solid it looks. Physicists decided long ago that matter was mostly emptiness, with atomic nuclei scattered thinly through it like stars in space and electrons orbiting around them. Last week, Dr. Robert L. Thornton of the University of California reported that even the nuclei are not very solid...
...other elements. Knowing the size and number of the nuclei, they could calculate how many particles should pass through the material without hitting any nuclei. More came through than the calculations had allowed for, and with hardly any loss of energy-indicating that the nuclei are not nearly so solid as supposed. It was enough to make nonscientists nervous...
Surrealist Landscapes. A sense of wonder pervaded the journals that Lewis & Clark kept. They expected to find mammoths and perhaps stranger prehistoric creatures. There was said to be a mountain of solid rock salt somewhere along their way, 180 miles long and 45 miles wide. They came into a land where they were shut in by steel-blue mountains, so alike that they seemed to have come into a country of mirrors. Once Meriwether Lewis, exploring alone the Great Falls of the Missouri, found himself studying the water foaming over the high masses of rocks. Below him the Missouri stretched...
...tale of a sailor's discovery that his family has been blitzed, and Anna Kavan's Face of My People, a pathos-laden account of a neurotic veteran's resistance to psychoanalytical probing ("They've taken everything; let them not take my silence") are good, solid if not world-shaking stories. Also worth watching is William Sansom, who can't yet create characters but who has a captivating way with machinery...