Word: 21st
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...commercial reactors were built over the years, all Asia would "leapfrog the conventional fuel systems" and hurry on to higher living standards with atomic reactors that would also "propel . . . Africa, Free Europe and Latin America into the 21st century . . . Dollars per se are no longer power . . . If we do not use industrial atomic energy to ... create vast new world markets for our products . . . we shall have doomed ourselves to an inferior competitive position, second to the Soviet Union...
Three weeks ago football's little men completed their 21st organized season when Princeton edged Rutgers for the crown of the Eastern Intercollegiate 150-Pound Football League. While big-time All-Americans and local unsung heroes monopolized the Cambridge scene, this victory went largely unnoticed, particularly since the Crimson had given up lightweight football over 20 years...
...peroration at the Lord Mayor's banquet in London expressed hope that "we might even find ourselves in a few years moving along a broad, smooth causeway of peace and plenty instead of roaming and peering around on the rim of hell." And the Soviet radio celebrated the 21st anniversary of U.S. diplomatic recognition of Soviet Russia by quoting George Washington: "Nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations . . . should be excluded...
...enough in Congress and are good campaigners. Yet any of them, or all three of them, might lose just because they are Republicans and Virginia is normally Democratic. North Carolina's G.O.P. Representative Charles Raper Jonas is in only a slightly better position. In New York's 21st District, Jacob Javits was the one Republican who could win. Now Javits is running for state attorney general, and Republican Candidate Floyd Cramer has little chance. The Republicans may drop a seat in California's 13th District because of the aroma left behind by G.O.P. Representative Ernest Bramblett, whose...
...regard it as their only home. Equally important, France's African empire, all of which might fall if strategic North Africa is lost, is the last remaining assurance that France is a great power. "Without it," Frenchmen argue with incontestable pessimism, "France will have no place in the 21st century. We shall be 40 million Frenchmen against nearly twice as many Germans. We shall become another Portugal...