Word: bertrand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...children; how Jane Eyre was scorned by Mr. Rochester in the cruel words "Who in the world cares for you?" Simpson's efforts to sketch from these case histories a kind of psychology of orphanhood, however, do not get much beyond repeated cries of suffering and loss. Thus Bertrand Russell: "The centre of me is always and eternally a terrible pain -- a curious wild pain -- a searching for something beyond what the world contains...
Depleted Uranium 238, the type of uranium the students stole, is unlike Uranium 235 because it cannot cause a nuclear reaction and is dangerous only in very large amounts, said Harvard Professor of Physics Bertrand I. Halperin...
...greatest growth since 1983 has been in his ability to get good people and allow himself to rely on them. Will his team win? Or will Parry and Murray's Kookaburra mates refuse to yield the Cup? As the racing began, most experts favored Conner, but Australian Skipper John Bertrand, who won the Cup in 1983, loyally picked Kookaburra, 4-3. Ronald Reagan and Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke could not stay out of the guessing game. In a phone call two weeks ago, the President offered the PM a "proposition on a matter of importance and some common concern...
...Bertrand Blier (Going Places, Get Out Your Handkerchiefs, Beau Pere) revels in treating romantic obsession as a frolic to the death. Recklessly assured, Blier keeps escalating the stakes here until comedy becomes love story becomes tragedy becomes megafarce. After an hour or so, Menage explodes from the exhaustion of possibilities, and the cast is left to pick up the pieces. They do so, handsomely, while the sardonic writer-director surveys the carnage with what he calls "my big shotgun smile." You can see bits of flesh in his teeth...
Metallic glass has the potential to eliminate heat loss in transformers that currently wastes 1.5 percent of our country's power, according to Professor of Physics David R. Nelson, while Physics Professor Bertrand I. Halperin stressed the application of ultra-small structures in semi-conductors...