Word: berkeleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...George Berkeley...
...have grown up alongside its tracks. A massive report on the results of its research was published by the railroad. "This is not an academic project," Leontief remarked, "but it is practical." In St. Louis a table based on the metropolitan area has been constructed. A banking house in Berkeley, Calif., has also completed a local chart...
...Berkeley, Calif...
...lively 19th century dispute with Hegel, Russell triumphs over the ponderous metaphysics of German idealism. In this victory can be heard the thud of Dr. Johnson's boot against the stone in the good doctor's celebrated refutation of Bishop Berkeley's notion that matter is something in one's mind...
...rigid dogmas do not seriously confine Russian scientists. In their laboratories their minds are free, and if they are in an officially favored science, they are almost as free to follow their favorite projects as U.S. scientists are. Said Physicist Robert Erode of the University of California at Berkeley: "People can compartmentalize their minds. The argument that there can be no creative science in a restricted society has not held water." Most U.S. visitors agree that Russian scientists are less restricted by political ideology than by the rigid hierarchies of the institutes where they work (which are outgrowths of ideology...