Word: sphere
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would doubtless be shocked by the modern artists who paint from imagination-and most of whom (Picasso, Braque and Duchamp) credit him with showing the way. For him, nature was everything, in spite of the fact that what he kept seeing in nature was, he insisted, "the cylinder, the sphere and the cone, all put into perspective...
...dramatic truthfulness is an unique manisfestation of human genius," Walter stated, but like Goethe's, it is not a revolutionary but a mere "harmonious type of human genius that in every new work makes a conquest in a new sphere, in a new phase of superhuman creative form...
...deric Joliot-Curie, France's High Commissioner of Atomic Energy, claimed that making atomic bombs was as easy as rolling off a neutron. His recipe, in United Nations World magazine: "Imagine a sphere of Uranium 235 large enough to be susceptible to explosive chain reaction. Now divide it into two hemispheres each below the 'critical mass.' Place these ... at the two ends of a cylindrical tube. One hemisphere is fixed, the other mobile, so that an explosive charge . . . can cause it to slide swiftly into contact with the other. . . . When the two hemispheres come together, the conditions...
...baring his economic fangs to the extent of a four month quasi-embargo on the expert of vital foodstuffs to Bolivia, Argentina's dictator, Juan D. Peron, has succeeded in sweating an important trade contract out of mineral-rich Bolivia and has added another balky satellite to his growing sphere of influence. The pact was ostensibly signed in an aura of good will and mutual agreement, but actually was achieved through a complete strangulation of Bolivian economy. Dependent on Argentina for ninety percent of its wheat and sixty percent of its meat quota, the newly democratic government unwisely flaunted...
...Armies." Now they had their heads together again. Each had managed somehow to "escape" postwar Germany and to get airplane bookings from Paris into their Arab sphere. Fawzi chuckled as he told how he and his tall, 26-year-old German wife had almost been in British hands in Palestine, where there is a ?2,000 price on his head. Their Paris-to-Cairo plane made an unscheduled, hour-long stop at the Lydda airport, surrounded by British cops. Their names were on the flight list, their baggage plainly marked. But no Briton came near the plane as they...