Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sir: As a scientist, I disagree that the solution to the problem of our deteriorating environment must come from science. Science can help in areas like air and water pollution and waste disposal. But an expanding population needs houses, and houses occupy land formerly devoted to other uses. Though reduction...
Get-Up-&-Go. Prairie wagons were built for maneuverability and speed-but were not expected to outlast their westward journey. Steamboat racing became a popular passion, despite its appalling accident record: between 1825 and 1850 at least 150 major explosions on western steamboats ("half boat, half alligator") killed more than...
The Rev. John B. Coburn, Dean of the Episcopal Theological School, called the perdict a "shocking travesty of American Justice." Coburn had earlier sent a telegram testifying to Daniels' good character for insertion in the trial record. An observer at the trial said the telegram was presented to the state...
They will not have understood what the heart and the dignity and the character of a community are all about.
In a city of banalizing values in which I grew up, a white amongst ambitious whites--not by others but essentially by myself betrayed--the saving character of a people who have held onto the roots of uniqueness, moral courage, political bravado and intellectual guts provide me today with one...