Word: brande
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seems to me that any ideology supported by Einstein, Gide, Sartre and Camus is not lightly to be dismissed . . . TIME, however, with its one-track editorial policy seized the opportunity to reiterate its own brand of gobbledygook: "The only way to peace is a stony road which involves constant risk of war." Translated, this means: "Pledge allegiance to your nation, arm to the teeth, and be ready at all times to be led to the slaughter by your 'leaders' whenever diplomacy between sovereign states gets out of hand, as it does periodically...
Cold air, moving in from the great blizzard, underran warm air in Arkansas and Louisiana and tripped off an eccentric series of tornadoes. The most damaging hit the mill town of Warren, Ark. (pop. 10,000) just at dinner time, sounding, said one survivor, "like a brand-new diesel train going full blast across Iowa...
Agnostic Ortega had no system to give; with his own brand of humanism, he could only hope to guide men, as he had once urged them to act grandly. "Man has no nature," he once wrote. "He has a history." That history changed each moment, each moment bringing new decisions. It was an eternal "dialogue between man and his circumstances." To know those circumstances was the job of the philosopher; to act by them, mankind...
This scarcity is particularly regrettable in the case of assistant professors. They find themselves obliged to write books to win permanent appointments but without the time in which to do it. Now, through a brand new program of term leaves with pay, assistant professors at Harvard will be able to compete with men at other colleges on an equal or more advantageous basis for permanent appointments here or elsewhere. Young teachers will be given time, short as it is, to write the book so essential to their advance...
...Learned How." In a quarter-century of the game, Ben Hogan had probably hit more golf balls than any man alive. Then one day in 1947 while he was walking out to a practice tee in Fort Worth, a brand new idea occurred to him. He hit a few shots in what was for Ben a slight change of style. He had lost the hook (which golfers say always rolls till it reaches trouble) and found a fade (a slight drift to the right) which he could control with great accuracy...