Word: attained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only one month out of every 25-a period referred to by scientists as "the window." All through November the window was open, but the first U.S. attempt to peek inside failed when the Mariner C spacecraft, unable to jettison its 300-lb. fiber-glass protective shield, could not attain the necessary speed...
...General Education program and calls for renewed effort on the part of the Faculty to Gen Ed. this group sees the distribution requirement in the background and doesn't like it. Even more irritating to supporters of Gen Ed, the Doty Report never discusses whether General Education can better attain the goals of a Gen Ed program that departmental courses...
...learn because we have an interest in understanding: we notice because our vision fulfills a need in our lives. In the extreme case Mr. Welch poses, we engage in inquiry to acquaint ourselves with enough technical knowledge to enable us to earn a living, build a bridge, or attain whatever finite goal we posit. The answers we obtain have meaning only in terms of the purposes behind the questions we ask; there is no realm of "truth in itself," towards which it is the duty of the student to yearn in a pointless idealism...
...distinctive ones. It is a book written accurately, for White weighs against the attacks on Kennedy not only the candidate's counterclaims, but his experiences. After a campaign with Kennedy White wrote with emotion, but not the kind of emotion one feels now. Perhaps only when we re-attain this accuracy will we be able to see John Kennedy as we saw him then. More probably, we will never see him as "accurately" again
...often charged, that all communists are identical. His view is, rather, that the communists share a common goal--the replacement of our "free" society by communism--and that the way to make the communists renounce that goal is by making it prohibitively expensive for them to attain or approach it. This is done by being hostile to communists until they have shown by actions as well as words, that they have renounced this goal. In Goldwater's view, the communist threat is our main problem. Thus the U.N., which cannot deal with that problem, may be useful, but cannot...