Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...results were awesome. One objective was to measure the capacity of the highenergy, high-altitude explosions to cause "eclipse blindness"-lesions of the retina, so called because they have most often happened to people who watch eclipses of the sun without protecting their eyes. Rabbits were chosen as the test animals. AEC scientists found that an explosion the size and height of Teak delivers its thermal energy in less time than a rabbit (or a man) can blink. Said the report grimly: "Retinal burns were produced in the rabbits at distances up to 300 nautical miles." This tended to support...
...down with them and thereafter began an intensive study of race relations, which he kept up at the First Presbyterian Church of Columbus, Ga., where he went 6½ years ago. In 1957 and 1958 he was chosen to draft the Southern Presbyterian reports on race, and they were noted as the most liberal statements on the subject to have been issued by a predominantly Southern denomination...
...this changed the A.M.A.'s public posture, it did not change the minds of some A.M.A. bigwigs. Los Angeles' Dr. E. Vincent Askey, newly chosen presidentelect (to take office in 1960, succeeding Florida's Dr. Louis M. Orr), insisted after the vote that just as inviolable as the patient's right to choose his physician is his right to reject one. To Dr. Askey, the freedom to choose a closed panel is no freedom...
...artists (two-thirds under 40) now on display at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art makes a lively commentary on the present state of modern man's concerns and anxieties as well as his changing view of beauty. The broad selection chosen from some 700 entries underlines another fact: whether today's sculpture starts off as junk and ends up as art. or the other way around, there is a lot of it. Says Art Critic James Thrall Soby (who served on the selection committee ): "I think no fair-minded person can look at the present show...
...from leading poor sinners into despairing hedonism, this stern doctrine had the opposite effect; Geneva became a city in which everyone was trying to prove himself chosen for salvation, and Calvin set up a city administration that was designed to keep Genevans on the straight and narrow. In groups of ten, Geneva's citizens were summoned to swear fealty to a 21-article confession of faith; church and state had separate powers, but in Calvin's theocracy no citizen of the state could be outside the authority of the church. The most famous of his opponents, Michael Servetus...