Word: searchingly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Einstein once said he expected to devote the rest of his life to the search for a unified field theory which would bridge relativity and quantum mechanics, embrace all phenomena from the atom to the universe. Once he hit on a promising lead-a treatment of space as a double sheet with atomic particles as "bridges" connecting the sheets-but that ran into a dismal dead...
Picking up Columbus' second voyage (in 1404) at Cape Maisi on the eastern tip of Cuba, the ketch will follow along what the explorer thought was a peninsula on the Asiatic mainland, and trace his expeditions in search of the Emperor of China...
...Ladies and gentlemen of the radio audience, having been found guilty of turning on your radio in search of good entertainment it is my solemn duty to sentence you to 30 minutes within the auditorium of Central Prison...
...before, the novelist had visited Rome as a poor but haughty young man, had met a moist old character who took him to see an obscure but radiantly beautiful fountain. Ostensible theme of his book is his skeptical wish to see that fountain again. Actually it is a profounder search for a profounder fountain...
...minute search finally revealed the culprit in the form a corroded battery connection that had crumbled to dust under its rubber casing...