Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...theory of relativity ("It is against common sense," says Newman of the theory, "but so at first were the ideas of vaccination and of men living upside down in the Antipodes"), a mathematical assessment of military strength by Frederick Lanchester (Newman notes that abstract theories of science often turn out to be quite practical, "as if one bought a top hat for a wedding and discovered later, when a fire broke out, that it could be used as a water bucket"), and the two-dimensional world of Edwin A. Abbott, inhabited by characters cut from plane geometry...
...quickly caught up in the trials and difficulties of a family that is continuously fighting financial hardship. Ultimately the family's livelihood depends on the horse, Takeru, who hopefully will turn out to be the Nashua of his hemisphere. The horse experiences two traumatic experiences with fire, the first in a nearby forest and the second in his Tokyo stable. These incidents of couse affect his racing proficiency, and in the end the boy uses his harmonica in an attempt to calm the distraught animal in preparation for the "big race...
...engineers found welcome news. Made of heat-resistant stainless steel and nickel alloy with a specially tempered windshield designed to withstand 1,000° F. temperatures, the X-2 was built to probe the "thermal thicket" of supersonic speeds where the heat generated by friction with the atmosphere can turn metal into putty. But there were no thorns in the thicket for the X2. She was untouched...
...more realistic formula for measuring passenger-traffic profit and loss, Berge suggests using actual out-of-pocket costs, i.e., subtracting from total passenger revenues only those costs directly connected with maintaining passenger traffic. On this basis the ICC's $4.8 billion passenger deficit between 1947 and 1954 would turn into a $486 million profit. Taking the most recent years, during which passenger revenues dropped, Berge found only a $1,000,000 loss in 1953 v. a $705 million ICC deficit, a $38 million loss in 1954 v. a claimed $670 million deficit...
...midsummer madness that gripped Paris: "A lightning-quick epidemic which forces different and antagonistic persons all to obey the same mysterious order, to submit themselves to new habits which overturn their old ways of life, up to the moment when a new order arrives and obliges them to turn their coat once more...