Word: peculiar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gell-Mann-at the age of 24 -formulated his Theory of Strangeness (named after Francis Bacon's line: "There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion"). He assigned a value to each of the puzzling new particles: a "strangeness" number based on their peculiar rate of decay. His analysis established a new and logical relationship between the particles and showed how they interacted...
Frank D. Drake, associate director of the Center for Radiophysics and Space Research at Cornell, present at Harvard yesterday new information on pulsars-unusual stars which derive their name from their peculiar redid pulsating...
...House, as to why six Negro students were granted equal rights and authority with Faculty on the Standing Committee on Afro-American Studies. Professor Stewart rightly remarks that this decision of the Faculty last April (a decision which ignored the guidelines of the Rosovsky Report) was made under a "peculiar set of circumstances." But he is mistaken as to the substance of those "peculiar circumstances...
...Clark showed me a drawerful of feminine deodorant sprays made by competitive companies, including "My Own," "Ambiance," "P. S.," "Busy Body" and "Concern." He pointed out that anxiety over vaginal odor is not peculiar to America. Bidets are common through Europe and a towelette called "Bidex," name and packaging copied from the American product, is now sold it Switzerland and Germany. Also, Youngs Drugs exports Bidette products to Europe...
...Griffith's return to this image is anti-classical, a return to the central subject, womanhood, which he never cared or managed to define. The image itself-hermetic anti-analytical-shows him at his most sentimental and romantic. The material and the style of Intolerance come together in a peculiar expressive balance...