Word: whirling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drop of water were enlarged to the size of the earth, each atom in it would be about the size of an orange. Yet most of an atom is empty space through which the electrons whirl. The nucleus itself occupies only one million-billionth of the atom's bulk...
...Queen Was Off Key. In the present edition of letters (the most complete in 80 years) Felix' frivolity bubbles as brightly as it does in his music. In London the young man of fashion found "Such a whirl! It is mad! I am quite giddy and confused. . . . Lady Morgan was there, and Winterhalter, and Mrs. Jameson, and Duprez, who . . . sang a French romance. . . . Who can count them...
...President got most of his relaxation from occasional swims in the White House pool, had little time for outside entertainment. But Mrs. Truman took her place in the Washington social whirl, proved herself equal to the rigors of teas, dinners and receptions. At one crowded affair an ample and obviously uncomfortable dowager approached to inquire, "My, aren't you warm?" The First Lady replied: "Most certainly not. I find it very comfortable." Last week she held her first formal White House party (for wives of the diplomatic set), planned a tea for newspaperwomen this week. She also found time...
...Whirl. In Chicago, headquarters of Rotary International announced the readmission to membership of the Rotary Club of Guam...
Dutch-born Piet Mondricm (1872-1944), pioneer of purest abstractionism, also felt fettered by objects. But where Kandinsky went off in a whirl, Mondrian painted straight, narrow paths. He finally became so ascetic that curves were too emotional for him, and he drew nothing but horizontal and vertical lines, convinced that the right angle was the purest "expression of the two opposing forces [which] constitute life." To the uninitiated, the result might look something like a linoleum pattern, but Mondrian spent days shifting colored Scotch tape around a canvas, hoping to achieve a perfect harmony of balanced rectangles...