Word: germ
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Green Was My Valley, which spread to over 700,000 customers and also flared up in a Hollywood movie. While the fever raged, many readers and a few critics raved that it was a great novel. By 1943, when None But the Lonely Heart appeared, Llewellyn's germ had lost some of its potency with critics, but it still took hard on the reading and moviegoing public...
...which made automobiles and airplanes inevitable, were running in the 1880's. Radio waves were discovered by Hertz in 1887, and the first paid radiogram was sent from the Isle of Wight in 1898. The first public telephone exchange was opened in New Haven, Conn, in 1878. The "germ theory" of disease dates from the 1860s. It is hard to find an important technological element in modern life that did not have its roots in the age of pre-Planckian innocence...