Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another new, upper-level Hum course, Herbert Dieckmann, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, will give Hum 135, The Age of Enlightenment, in the spring of next year...
...discuss this question intelligently," Eisenhower replied, "only in the light of the age-old truth that the security position of a country is not determined wholly by the troops that it keeps. It is determined also by their economic, their spiritual, their intellectual strength, as well as their purely military." Britain, said he, in a mixed metaphor that fascinated the experts (see PRESS), "has had a really heroic row to hoe in trying to keep its economic nose above water." So the British are "trying ... to cut their cloth, you might say, according to what they...
Within 24 hours after Britain's White Paper leap into the missile age (TIME, April 15), West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer took a spry leap of his own. West Germany, he declared, must also have some atomic weapons-just like Britain...
...favorite to stretch their 21-year rule by another four-or five-year term. They are presiding over an economy throbbing with prosperity and boasting a $282 million budget surplus, their ninth surplus in ten years. In the last session of Parliament, the government cut taxes, increased old-age pensions and "baby bonuses," i.e., mothers' allowances. It put through a national hospital insurance act. But for their political heavy artillery, the Liberals still rely mainly on the powerful personal appeal of Quebec-born Louis St. Laurent, who at 75 is leading his third national campaign...
...into wet sheets hanging on a backyard line ("Do that with an electric drier!"), and well remembers that one important use for a phonograph was to see how far the turntable could throw a horse chestnut. Smith knows he does not have a chance to prevail in the golden age of the child psychologist. He is simply a brave, worried man who knows that boys "don't want science. They want magic...