He had helped assemble the first atomic weapon, barely a year earlier, and a contemporary photograph shows him standing beside its innards with his shirt unbuttoned and sunglasses on, cool and collected.
Contemporary society is not standing still -- and buildings must evolve with new patterns of life to meet the needs of its users.
To watch a Shakespeare play the way his contemporaries did — perhaps even standing for the show, like a real "groundling" — you might want to head to Auckland, New Zealand.
Ms Chazal refused, for instance, to present the news standing up, as contemporary television fashion demands.
Did you enjoy Gemma Arterton as Elizabeth Bennet standing in a contemporary bathroom in Hammersmith?
Any Los Angeles museum that is currently thriving — and that would include the Hammer and the Los Angeles County Museum — is to some extent standing on the contemporary museum's shoulders.
Last year, he gave a speech to the Massachusetts legislature condemning what he called an "atmosphere of hate" in contemporary politics and drawing a standing ovation from the Democratic-controlled body.
No matter your décor style, an antique is the perfect finishing touch in a room by blending harmoniously with traditional décor, or standing out among contemporary styling.
Some experts, for example, claim that the find actually shows that Lucy and her contemporaries were actually better at standing up than today's humans, because our anatomy is built so that we can give birth to babies with big brains and big heads.
At the Vienna concerts, audience defections were few, and some of the contemporary works won enthusiastic responses, even standing ovations.
