Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...security, principle. After Prince Albert died in 1861 she had his evening clothes laid out every night as a memorial ritual of constancy. She had once rebuked a Minister who used the word expediency: "My lord, I have been taught to judge between what was right and what was wrong; 'expediency' is a word I neither wish to hear again nor to understand...
...half-century's greater politicians was Winston Churchill. Sometimes wrong, often right, he fought his way toward the heart of every storm. In 1900, Churchill, like his contemporaries, looked forward to pleasant years. Like his contemporaries, Churchill was to struggle through depths and rise to heights unimaginable to 1900. No man's history can sum up the dreadful, wonderful years 1900-50. Churchill's story comes closest...
...atom of one could be transmuted into an atom of another. The scientists were confident that if they applied such well-known rules with greater & greater precision, they could eventually explain everything in the universe. Few of them suspected, and fewer dared suggest, that the basic rules might be wrong...
...momentarily startled when he arrived at Boysville school in Michigan for a Christmas party. A group of youths hurriedly lined up to greet him. They carried placards which were supposed to spell out H-E-L-L-O GOVERNOR. In the confusion one of the boys ran to the wrong place in line. The placards spelled out O-H-E-L-L GOVERNOR...
Since both electromagnetism and gravitation are properties of matter, scientists are sure that they must be connected somehow. Since about 1920, the search for a connection has occupied many theoretical physicists. Einstein himself thought he had found the secret in 1935, but later decided he was on the wrong track. This time he may have succeeded...