Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Zimmerman will interpret the direction of social change as related to a gradual breakdown of the family system. Professor Folsom expressed a totally different opinion in the July 26 issue of Life when he stated that the direction of the family system is toward greater adaptability in a scientific age...
Twelve years age, Hitler grabbed the Ruhr. Without it, the German war machine would have been weak, and the incredibly successful conquests of 1939 to 1942 impossible. But with the most concentrated industrial region in the world working for him, Hitler conquered Europe. Once the Nazis were defeated, the Allied coalition determined to control the Ruhr, to make sure that Germany would never again have the productive means for war. Originally, the Allies planned to pull up the factories by the foundations and turn the Ruhr into a pasture-land. This drastic position was, however, economically dangerous, and slowly gave...
...there is one point which will surely arouse in the whole scientific community, and in men of learning everywhere, so profound a revulsion that I cannot pass it in silence. That has to do with the evaluation of Einstein, and of his place in science, which no time, no age, and no frivolity can alter, and of the debt that we owe, and that all who follow us will owe, to him. It would seem that the issue goes beyond that of good taste, that it touches on an appreciation of the timeless nature of truth, without which the life...
...spent a good deal of his time holed up in his room, alone, reading Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s The Age of Jackson. Despite the convivial atmosphere of the convention, he sternly denied himself lunches (he struggles religiously to keep his weight at 185 lbs.-at one time he did daily roadwork to reduce). He turned down all invitations to visit bars, nightclubs or gambling joints (at 54, he has yet to touch either alcohol or tobacco...
Harry Truman was thankful he could supervise those White House repairs to the bitter end. Jim Cronin was thankful the Yalies wouldn't be back until 1960. 22-year-old age group...