Word: spaces
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eyebrows. Indian mystic Krishna "had been touted ... as an 'untouchable,' so much so that when I walked down Fifth [Avenue] with him he had to beg me to get him into a taxi since the females pestered him so." Flagg's own pestering gets considerably more space in his book. The story of his love life starts in low gear ("How was I to know that beautiful Nellie, voluptuous and sweet to look upon, was physically frigid?"), but soon shifts into high...
...only reliable meson generators are the mysterious cosmic rays from outer space, which spend most of their force inconveniently high in the atmosphere...
...science had far outrun popular understanding. Relativity was nearly a generation old, but it had not yet penetrated the thin outer layers of the public mind. The Quantum Theory, perhaps even more important, was even less understood. People needed to know that stars were no longer points in space, but convenient physical laboratories, observed through fantastic instruments. People needed to be told that the atom had fallen apart, had dissolved into lesser particles...
...Including: The Universe Around Us, The Mysterious Universe, The Stars in Their Courses, The New Background of Science, Through Space and Time...
...avowed purpose of the project was to make it unnecessary for the girls to return to Shepard Street between classes and to allow more space for the mobs in Widener. Traditional Radcliffe deprecators will, of course, welcome the change, and an occasional queen walking down the aisle from the book desk will no longer waste a hundred man-hours of studious effort at every trip for a book...