Word: ernest
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Their work closely paralleled the discovery of atomic nuclei. In 1910, Ernest Rutherford fired alpha particles (fragments of helium atoms) at targets of gold foil. Most passed through, but some bounced back, making it clear that there were dense concentrations of matter within the foil. In the Stanford experiments, electrons were fired at protons and neutrons. The way the electrons bounced off these particles showed that the latter were not uniformly dense but made up of tiny concentrations of matter -- the quarks...
...rich "are different from you and me," wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald. "Yes," Ernest Hemingway appended, "they have more money." But Claus and Sunny von Bulow, at least as represented in this marvelously sad and funny docucomedy, really were different. She, the depressive Newport heiress, with a frail hauteur in her demeanor and a well-stocked pharmacy in her purse. He, Danish-born and smartly foppish, living off her wealth and at her whim. Not Eurotrash exactly -- aristotrash. When in 1981 Claus was accused of attempting to murder Sunny with insulin injections, leaving her in a coma from which...
...nonstop stream of gossip, scuttlebutt and awestruck praise about the rich and famous, including 65 miniprofiles of such figures as financier Michael-David Weil and Hollywood superagent Mike Ovitz. The prose is burnished, but not much of the dish is fresh, save for two first-rate pieces -- one by Ernest Volkman and John Cummings about Mob leader John Gotti, the other by Richard Morgan about advertising mogul Burt Manning -- that are spun off from books. The juiciest item is about the marital breakup of billionaire businessman John Kluge. The weakest, a rambling travelogue of Prague, is by editor in chief...
...Harvard Boston-area fundraiser Ernest M. Monrad '51 on the delay in the University's massive capital campaign caused by President Derek C. Bok's departure...
...Ernest E. Monrad '51, one of Harvard's chiefBoston fundraisers and donors, may be just theexample Reardon seeks...