Word: versa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...apparently conscious that, if it were true it must mark a stage between the highest beast and Man." When a government interloper tries to requisition Percy for a suicidal rocket project, the professor decides that nobody is going to make a guinea pig out of his monkey-or vice versa. By that time he knows what ails Percy. The unhappy ape, gazing "forlornly out of his cage, [yearns for] the freedom to make love to Edwina of his own choice, to persuade and implore her, to aspire and range." One night the professor releases Percy and, sure enough by dawn...
...energy released should equal the mass of the original atom. Often they do not; a small amount of mass disappears as completely as a snowflake in the ocean. This is serious because the physical sciences are based on the principle that mass can turn into energy and vice versa, but neither can just disappear...
...Include British Army units (among them, one armored division) within the European Army formations "and vice versa"; include R.A.F. wings within the European Army's air forces "and vice versa "; join Royal Navy units in EDC maneuvers and generally interchange techniques, training facilities and personnel...
...team's improvement, Shepard says, "Our four seniors--captain Ed Krinsky, Bill Dennis, Ed Condon, and Ed Blodnick--have given the squad a lot of poise. They've been a losing group up till this year, but now when the pressure on the other club, instead of vice versa...
...while, last fall, I had it all straight in my head that an egghead was no Republican, and vice versa. Now you write up [Aug. 17] this fellow [Massachusetts' Governor] Herter, who sounds like a right guy to me, and if ever I heard an egghead described, to the life, it's Herter. The fellow reads books, understands art, thinks and is a Republican...