Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard has made a major contribution to radio astronomy in this country, a contribution in training and research that provided much of the background for this project," Bok noted. The College Observatory's 60-foot radio telescope, now under construction at Harvard, Mass., will be the largest in the country when it is completed, and a 24-foot model is now in operation there...
Peace, prosperity, and progressive social legislation seem to constitute Eisenhower's formula for success. Although many of his foreign and domestic proposals are commendable, at least in theory, it is regrettable that he had to paint such a rosy background for his program. Conditions--both at home and abroad--are just not that good...
...made in getting Soviet approval for our air teams to visit Soviet-controlled territory for appraisal of bomb damage, or for our naval team to [inspect the port of] Gdynia. Both proposals were agreed to at Yalta." And so on, around the world, the 43 documents add to the background of the lost peace...
...department was established, Rockefeller was appointed Under Secretary to Texas' Oveta Gulp Hobby. Many an old hand in Washington thought that being Under Secretary to the second woman Cabinet member* in U.S. history would not be an entirely satisfactory assignment, but Rockefeller never cringed. Tactfully staying in the background, he used his experience and skill as a Washington administrator to get the new department on its feet, drafted the major planks in the Eisenhower welfare program, e.g., expansion of social security, federal aid for hospital construction. The career employees in HEW took a genuine liking to the millionaire...
...personifying also the symbolical side. The color has nothing whatever to do with nature . . . Through all the reds and purples run streaks of flame as though a furnace were blazing before one's eyes, seat of all the painter's mental struggles. And all this on a background of chrome yellow with childish little bouquets of wild flowers. A room for a pure young girl . . ." To Vincent van Gogh, to whom nature was everything, it was Gauguin's sunken eyes that spoke. He wrote his brother Theo: "He looks like a prisoner, ill and tormented." Theo struggled...