Word: variants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Goren, who once bid TIME'S flawed variant of the Gerber Convention while partnering Gerber himself, is pleased that so many readers caught TIME'S error...
...himself-though not necessarily to carry out-what he wishes to do or to become. Category No. 3 varies from No. 2 since it is not a moral state of mind, but a project of action (example: existentialism). Political liberty, it turns out, is nothing more than a variant of circumstantial self-realization, since "the individual's possession of it depends on his having a certain status, bestowed on him by the state, rather than upon his having a certain state of character or mind resulting from his own moral development...
...conquistadors had no sooner begun cutting their way through the jungles of South America than they found themselves suffering casualties from Indian darts tipped with a potent, paralyzing poison. But a century passed before Sir Walter Raleigh in 1595 carried to Europe the first samples of "urari"-a variant of curare. Years later botanists classified the shrubs from which curare is made,* and the brilliant French physiologist, Claude Bernard, in 1856 made an important discovery: from samples supplied by Brazil's Emperor Pedro II he showed that curare paralyzes its victims by blocking transmission of impulses from nerve...
...angle made by the platform and the Schuler-pendulum, corrected by a chronometer which allows for the earth's rotation, exact readings of a plane's (or missile's) latitude and longitude are made, then translated into instructions for the servomechanisms that operate the controls. (A variant of this layout, not described by Draper, uses similar gyros to fix position, radios continuously back to home base for flight instructions.) Throughout the flight, the control system also operates like a normal automatic pilot, making necessary minor corrections for pitch, yaw and roll...
...conspicuously variant and characterized into types, which is all right, since, looking through such clear-cut personalities, it is easier to see what is common in all the men. There is a young, natty, Madison Avenue type, a European watchmaker, a paper-hanger, a football coach, a bank teller, a salesman, and a man himself born and raised in the slums...