Word: bring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Copernicus as "the craft of the Devil.'' The first academicians were mostly from the West, but whether Russian or not, they soon acquired the special place in society that they hold today. Though a practical man, Czar Peter fully realized the value of research that might not bring immediate benefits. As a result, from the days of the early academy's great all-round genius Mikhail Lomonsov -poet, pioneer physical chemist, physicist, reformer of the language, and "father of the new Russian literature"-Russian science has flourished even under the most stifling of dictatorships...
...scientists with demands that they "must not hold aloof from the ideological struggle," and if deviating intellectuals no longer disappear from the face of the earth, they can still disappear from the pages of Vestnik. After accepting an invitation to The Netherlands recently. Physicist Landau asked if he might bring along a friend. The friend, though billed as a fellow scientist, seemed to Landau's hosts to be more of a political chaperon. Freedom, it seems, can still ebb and flow like the tide, and latterly it seems to be ebbing again. Reported Peter Scheivert, professor of Slavic history...
...last week's only big outburst of street fighting (20 dead) in Tripoli, the army left the road open so that the leader of the Tripoli rebels could motor unmolested for coffee and peace talks with Chief of Staff Brigadier General Fuad Shehab in Beirut. But efforts to bring the warring parties to compromise came to nothing. U.S. weapons kept arriving for Chamoun's security forces, and rebel bombs kept exploding in Beirut's marketplaces, to keep shops shut and the general strike going...
Besides the resources that Iraq's oil and river-bottom lands will bring to the new Federation, it will have advantages of common frontiers and racial ties that Nasser's union conspicuously lacks. But Iraq is not keen to share its wealth with barren Jordan, and the Federation has been slow getting started. Iraq's King Feisal, 23, and his cousin Hussein. 22, of Jordan will both keep their crowns and the federal Parliament and Cabinet, controlling foreign and defense policies, will meet alternately in Baghdad and Amman. Still to be worked out: whether Iraq, which...
...always happy about the front-page ads," says Globe Treasurer John I. Taylor, "but this is a competitive newspaper town, and these ads bring us money." When the Traveler once tried to cut down its outsize headlines, says Managing Editor Hal Clancy, "our circulation went to hell. We have to have them." Fighting for street sales, which comprise up to 40% of average sales, the Globe packs the front page with short leads, which leap helter-skelter to inside pages...