Word: appears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fine print of almost every contract between the U.S. Government and a private business, these words appear: "The contractor agrees not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, creed, color or national origin." Last week Dwight Eisenhower by executive order established a 15-man Government Contract Committee designed to give these fine-sounding words practical effect...
...Washington between legislative sessions to work for his old friend Archibald MacLeish, in the Office of Facts & Figures. But Franklin Roosevelt's wartime administration by personal fiat outraged Herter's constitutional sensibilities, and he returned to Boston to seek a job that would enable him to appear on the national scene as a Republican critic. With the help of a fortuitous gerrymander, he got elected to Congress by a slim 2,900 votes. In 1944 his plurality rose to 20,000 votes; in 1946 it was 42,000, and in 1948 he was re-elected by a plurality...
...first, U.S. officials soft-pedaled the fact that it was an American program, letting it appear to be what U.S. High Commissioner James B. Conant called Germans feeding Germans. This device got the U.S. more credit (despite organized cries of outrage back in the U.S. in the Scripps-Howard press). And the Communists themselves spoke loudly of "Ami Pakete," so there was no doubt...
When Einstein announced his unified field theory 3½ years ago (TIME, Jan. 2, 1950), he asked his colleagues to check its validity. The theory attempted to connect the electromagnetic and the gravitational properties of the universe, which appear to follow separate sets of laws. To show that they are connected would complete the revolution in physics that began with the electromagnetic field theory of James Clerk Maxwell in the late 19th century. A single set of laws would be shown to rule and to unify the physical universe...
...Only Voice. "Freedom, it seems to me. lies not so much in objectivity, which is largely beyond human realization, as in variety . . . Those who appear regularly [on] BBC . . . must be prepared to blow their trumpets or sound their cymbals or scratch their violins in accordance with the Corporation's baton . . . Whether the music is good or bad, there is one orchestra with one conductor, following one score, and this state of affairs ... is both unhealthy and dangerous...