Word: adamses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THE PEACEMAKERS, by Richard B. Morris. In an impressive account of the political maneuvering that led to the Peace of Paris (1783), Historian Morris holds that royalist France, far from being a loyal friend, would have scuttled the newly founded U.S. except for the canniness of Jay, Franklin and Adams...
THE PEACEMAKERS, by Richard B. Morris. In an impressive account of the political maneuvering that led to the Peace of Paris (1783), Historian Morris holds that, far from being a loyal friend, royalist France would have scuttled the newly founded U.S. except for the canniness of Jay, Franklin and Adams...
Captain of Grenadiers. Despite the drawbacks of involvement, Schlesinger rejects the notion that the best historian is the one who has withdrawn to a perch above the heat and passion of life. Thucydides served as a general during the Peloponnesian War. Edward Gibbon, a soldier in his youth, found the...
Fast Flicker. Backed by the FAA, Dr. Hauty and Dr. Thomas Adams began with four volunteers, all male FAA employees aged 30 to 55, all scientists. For a week they tested the subjects in Oklahoma City to determine base lines for pulse, blood pressure, breathing rate, urinalysis, flicker-fusion time...
Dr. Adams took the first group westward by commercial jet across ten time zones. In Manila the subjects were rushed to a hospital where all the Oklahoma tests were repeated. Marked differences were found, but they diminished after a rest of about four days. They were less marked, and disappeared...