Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first Czechoslovak to win a Nobel Prize. The award came as much-belated recognition for his discovery of polarography, a delicate electrical method of chemical analysis. It works by measuring the properties of ions, and can detect slight traces of metals in a drop or two of a complex solution. Discovered in 1925, polarography is still used all over the world by analytical chemists...
Next fall, as part of its $53 million Program, Princeton will open its first "social quadrangle"--a block-square complex of five dormitories (housing from 270 to 300 students), a central dining hall, library and social facility (in place of the traditional eating clubs). Although it is limited in size, the quad represents a significant departure from the Princeton tradition of dormitories and private eating clubs...
...graduate School has developed certain specific goals: (1) a high degree of proficiency in necessary fields of economic analysis; (2) an understanding of the basic institutions in this and other societies, and historical changes in these institutions; (3) an awareness of the fact that public problems involve a complex of elements--social, political, technological, legal, and administrative; (4) an appreciation of the nature of administrative and political processes, their significance in the formulation and execution of policy, and the importance of ethical values in human relations; and (5) a high degree of proficiency in one of the established social science...
...NUCLEAR REACTOR that may make atomic power competitive with conventionally generated electricity will be built by Martin Co. under an $838,163 AEC contract. Reactor system uses pea-sized pellets of atomic fuel, eliminates the need for complex control rods used in present reactors, makes it easier to recover valuable fissionable material from the reactor...
Chevalier's most tantalizing implication is that Bloch, blind as Oedipus in his pride, believes that only he can control the use and abuse of the superbomb. In this light, Mark Ampter is a human sacrifice to Bloch's God complex. This^ view may be colored by Chevalier's personal resentment (although he claims that "this book was written not with hatred but with love," the novel's underlying tone suggests an ex-worshipper stomping on a fallen idol). But strangely enough, the Atomic Energy Commission came to a very similar conclusion about Oppenheimer...