Word: phenomena
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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AXAF will study many phenomena, including supernovae, black holes and nebulae...
...even the mistiest of such geezers is likely to be right about the rock and soul music of that decade: Who could overstate its distinctive exuberance, its heady inventiveness, or the thrill of its sheer abundance? And who could overcelebrate those most emblematic of '60s pop phenomena, the Beatles? For the Beatles were then, and remain to this day, the world's most astonishing rock-'n'-roll band...
...dedicated much time into trying to teach his students rather than lecturing alone," said Danh C. Dang '98, who took Physics 15c: "Wave Phenomena" with Georgi...
...been 20 years since John Irving's fourth novel, The World According to Garp, made its author famous. Not only did the book attract a massive readership, but it also inspired a cult following and such extra-literary phenomena as Garp T shirts and fan clubs. Irving's ninth novel, A Widow for One Year (Random House; 537 pages; $27.95), is unlikely to generate a similar hullabaloo. That is not because Irving's storytelling skills have waned; his new novel is in many respects his best since Garp. But over the past two decades, serious fiction has been elbowed ever...
Together they created a "reference earth model"--a model of the earth that seismologists can use to measure seismic waves and other geophysical phenomena...