Word: aloofness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...From aloof Eire came a reminder that history, even in its moments of crisis like the Moscow disagreement, is fleeting. The Dublin Theatre Royal's weekly quiz program offered ?20 to anyone who could name all four Foreign Ministers at Moscow. No one could...
...true that all is not in order here, but much has been done. For example, in those large areas where there is no Communist problem China is a good risk. . . . Even the French are interested in a railway between Chengtu and Indo-China. Only the Americans hold aloof-waiting for better risks...
...lack of membership." The Government long ago decided that it would not occupy the 22nd chair until the people of Canada prodded it, and last week there was little prodding. The Ottawa Journal epitomized the Dominion's attitude: "Wouldn't it be better for us to stand aloof-working with nobody in particular, but the friends...
...Gain a Plague. Among the men around Churchill in this moment of decision would be several who have hoped to inherit his leadership: tired, greying, 49-year-old Anthony Eden (most Britons still think of him as younger and more dynamic than he actually is); cool, aloof Richard Austen ("Rab") Butler; able Sir Oliver Lyttelton; clever Harold Macmillan; lazy Oliver Stanley. But there was little doubt that the telling weight in the decision would be Churchill's. And there was almost no doubt that Churchill would decide against trying for a knockout blow...
...knits them into a compact group, and they usually stay in that more or less aloof state in the course of professional Astronomy careers. Probably not more than 200 professionally trained astronomers are active in this country at the present time. For the A.B. Astronomer fresh from college, there are few alternatives. Although one became a ballet dancer a few years back, most of them go to work in allied subjects in secondary schools and then work up to Astronomy positions in colleges and universities. Some qualify with only an A.B. for research assistant jobs in industrial laboratories, but this...