Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...packs," the men resigned themselves to more work. To ease the strain, the British Broadcasting Corp. beamed special news and entertainment programs their way. The best news came from Sir Miles, who radioed that when the polar summer came in December, the John Biscoe would make another attempt to break through; if it failed, the expedition could expect a pickup by plane...
Bicycle Pedals. In one trial heat early in the meet, he swam the 1,500 meters (just under a mile) in 18 min. 19 sec., beating the previous world's record by more than a half-minute. That night, figuring that he would surely break the records for 800 and 1,000 meters on his way to an easy victory in the 1,500-meter final, dockers were ready to time him at those distances. But it was a teammate, Shiro Hashizume, who was ahead at 800 and 1,000 meters, and who set the new world marks. Then...
Said Chicago's Dr. Alonzo M. Mercer: "The Negro doctor doesn't get a break in hospitals, to get his patient in there or to practice there . . . Let's take another year and think about it." That was what the convention promptly decided to do. It was smart politics, and gave Negro doctors a year to see what concessions they could get at hospitals and medical schools controlled by A.M.A. members...
Absolute atheism, writes Maritain, "deprives God and mankind of some potential saints, in making their attempts at heroic freedom a failure, and turning their effort to break with the world into a total and servile subservience to the world." Conversely, saints have been the greatest revolutionaries. Maritain contends that for centuries the world's temporal progress was fostered by the saints. It was only during the last hundred-odd years, when the results of the industrial revolution were bringing mankind more & more to social thinking and social action, that the saints dropped from the lead and the atheists took...
...Girls Come Out to Play, a title that the U.S. publishers discarded as overlong and over-likely to suggest a book for juveniles. U.S. readers may nevertheless bear it in mind, for the book can be taken as an engraved invitation to a whole class of career intellectuals to break out of their nurseries. It is a civilized and at times a sardonically funny satirical novel...