Word: constant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there is a hint of rain, punctual Alger Hiss, with his wife, climbs the long front steps of Manhattan's U.S. Court House. Crowded in an elevator with half a dozen reporters, lawyers, jurors, he rides up to the 13th floor. Reporters, long since accustomed to his constant, faintly smiling presence, discuss him calmly within his hearing-in the elevator, in the corridor outside the courtroom, in Andre's restaurant near the old World Building. There the Hisses also go for lunch; the management keeps their table reserved...
Such salty notions, freely expressed and frequently contradicted, have made Painter John Marin's letters a constant delight to his friends. Edited and put between covers, a selection of the letters and of his rather less coherent essays was on sale in U.S. bookstores last week (The Selected Writings of John Marin; Pellegrini & Cudahy; $7.50). Its publication marked the 79th birthday of one of the U.S.'s foremost artists, who has again & again been called "great...
...Mighty Constant. To laymen "h" (Planck's constant) is a tiny number (.000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 006 6 . . .), but it shook the scientific world. The little quanta of energy are the building stones of the universe, far more fundamental than big, clumsy atoms or even protons or electrons. Out of their discovery grew Einstein's relativity, including his historic proof, not then considered fraught with danger to civilization, that matter is equivalent to energy. Out of it grew Niels Bohr's description of the atom as a sort of sun surrounded by electron...