Word: attainment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nomination," he said, "we'll be calling in these and other egg-heads again. Stevenson very definitely attracts people of intellectual attain- ments and aspirations...
Kurchatov's last paragraph must have tantalized his Harwell listeners: "On appraising the various approaches to the problem of obtaining intense thermonuclear reactions, we do not deem it possible to completely exclude further attempts to attain this goal by using pulsed discharges. However, other possibilities must also be carefully considered. Especially interesting are those in which the idea of stationary processes may be used...
This new interpretation of a "regional defense area" is, for the Administration, a much-delayed step in the right direction. It indicates a recognition that armaments are not the primary defense against Communism. The redefinition is a frank if belated acknowledgement that NATO can never hope to attain its original objective, to become a major deterrent force in Europe. It is a confession that NATO cannot be a military garrison which could contain and repel any sustained large-scale Soviet land attack Westward. No European army raised by the NATO countries within the limits of their economic and military capabilities...
...Conference Committee that was ironing out differences between the Senate bill and an almost equally objectionable farm bill passed by the House a year ago. Said the President in his press conference: "I have never been one to say . . . that you must hold up good things in order to attain perfection . . . I am looking for a good bill for farmers and one that makes sense ... I just am not demanding my own ideas...
Scholastic "objectivity" then is important, and most history professors attempt to attain it by presenting a number of possible interpretations. While this approach is certainly a valid one, it is not always the most stimulating. The various possible interpretations tend to merge as one scheme of thought--there is really more danger of spoonfeeding, even if it is a spoonful of relativism...