Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wheel-like star tells what happens when one of the alien particles is annihilated. The antiproton (P¯ ) enters from the left. It is moving fast at first, but gradually slows down and merges with the nucleus of some unfortunate atom. There it combines with a proton or neutron, and both particles vanish, turning into 1,876 million electron volts of energy. The resulting explosion-extremely violent on the atomic scale-drives off fast-moving fragments that trace the lines of the star...
...side with luxury, Nazi and Communist bullyboys in the streets, cynicism as heavy as the makeup on the faces of the omnipresent prostitutes. The Threepenny Opera echoed that city. Vaguely based on John Gay's 18th century original, the German libretto by Poet Bert Brecht (now a propaganda wheel in East Germany) had a vicious underdog snarl ("First fill our bellies, then talk morality") and magnificent, vulgar humor. Like the rest of the work, Mack the Knife* was a bitter satire of society and of schmalzy, popular music; it gave a ragtime catalogue of murder, arson and rape...
...association chose TIME Inc. publications for both title and decorative inspiration. Amid the pageantry of the ball, bejeweled women and their white-tied escorts moved from room to room, each of which was styled after a TIME Inc. publication. There were, for example, imitation gold coins and a wheel in the FORTUNE Room, putting greens and a miniature golf course in the SPORTS ILLUSTRATED Room -and plenty of vitality at the LIFE Goes to a Party...
...clock has ten faces and eleven sets of coordinated work's moved by weights. Its 445 toothed wheels revolve at rates which vary from once every ten seconds to once every 25,000 years. (Olsen once showed a small wheel to a friend with the remark: "This piece will first be used in another thousand years.") Among the things that the clock computes: the days of the week, date, month and year on the Gregorian calendar, the Julian day and year, the movements of the planets, sunrise and sunset by mean solar time and true solar time, central European...
When creditors came calling on Citroën to protest these extravagances, he plied them with wine, cigars and promises of better times. By 1934, better times seemed on their way, as he tooled up for the famous front-wheel-drive Citroën. But it was too late: Citroën owed too much. One day in 1934, a creditor came calling who could not be turned away with fine language and fine wines. Pierre Michelin, tycoon of Michelin Tire Co., France's largest tiremakers, who had bought up an estimated 63% of Citro...