Word: centralized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...global war, and inadequate for calculating the political possibilities. Thus he scorns Churchill's preference for "the right hook," which Stimson contends was intended only as a war of attrition in Italy and the Balkans, but which could actually have changed the course of history in Central Europe...
...truth for its own sake over into his religious teaching: "If we hold that the Spirit of God is the one fountain of truth, we shall neither reject nor despise the truth itself, wherever it appears, unless we wish to be contemptuous of the Spirit of God." Of his central doctrinal position he wrote: "Predestination we call the eternal decree of God by which He has determined with Himself what He would have to become of every man. For they are not all created in an equal condition; but eternal life is foreordained for some and eternal damnation for others...
With his homemade apparatus, Reber made a radio map of the sky. Strong broadcasts, he found, come from the Milky Way (the crowded inner section of the galaxy or star-cloud in which the sun is one star). Most galaxies have a dense central nucleus, but the nucleus of the Milky Way galaxy (if one exists) is hidden by clouds of dust which block its light. . Reber turned his radio telescope on the place where the nucleus ought to be, and got a "bulge" of powerful radio energy. The nucleus does exist, he concluded, and is sending radio waves right...
...world's busiest scientist, the U.S. Government, has more arms than a Hindu goddess. Last week President Truman set up a central committee (the Interdepartmental Committee for Scientific Research and Development) to make all the scientific arms work in concert. Chairman is John R. Steelman, the President's assistant, who will keep the White House informed on scientific doings. Government agencies concerned with science (from Agriculture to Veterans Administration) will supply one member each to sit on the committee. The principal duties of the committee: to coordinate federal research, recommend new projects, keep in touch with non-Government...
...everyone knows, inflation will be a central issue in the 1948 campaign. Harry Truman got his licks in early: "Inflation and the high cost of living confront the American people-all the American people-with a grave danger. Unchecked inflation can bring on a serious depression that can cause untold hardship. . . . The American people look to the Congress to pass legislation adequate to perform this all-important task. I trust that when the Congress returns it will promptly enact an effective, workable program...