Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kansas' District Judge Beryl R. Johnson, speaking in Topeka: "As we climb the summit to confer, we must be mindful that the leaders who have described their dictatorship as a 'domination of the proletariat over the bourgeois,' have little regard for the sanctity of contract and do not believe that people have certain unalienable rights...
...Even in reading Russell's most complex and difficult treatises, one never suspects him of trying to avoid an issue by throwing up a meaningless verbal smokescreen that will hide the obvious banality or falsehood of his views on certain points. This is the result of that slow, painful climb toward greater intellectual clarity which has been the life-work of Russell and his colleagues, Moore and Wittgenstein, and which some contemporary writing is doing so much to negate. Thus in the first volume of his Systematic Theology, Professor Tillich cites Hegel fourteen times, and Russell not once. If England...
...castle was a suite of rooms in Hollis Hall. From the time he was given the rooms until 1932, when doctor's orders forced him to move, Hollis 15 was the most famous address in the College. Once a week, Copey would read aloud to anyone who cared to climb the four flights of stairs, knock on the door, and wait for command "Come in. Come in." from the imperiously courteous dweller...
Applying Research. President Crosby, a self-taught scientist who did not graduate from college ("I am probably the only rocket-company president without a degree"), credits much of Thiokol's fast climb to its investment in research. Thiokol's top executives, almost all scientists, put 9% of sales into research, mostly applied research because Crosby holds that some scientists spend too much brainpower on basic research, have "too damn much independence from management." On the other hand, Thiokol encourages all of its 450 scientists to devote 10% of their time to their own pet projects, even more time...
...TIME, May 27), owned 49% by Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp. and 23% by Laurance Rockefeller. The merger will give Thiokol all of Reaction's $16.5 million missile contracts, including those for the liquid rocket engines for North American's piloted X-15 plane, which is expected to climb to 100 miles, and may well be the first step to manned outer-space travel. With Reaction (1957 sales: $24 million) Thiokol expects to swell its sales as high as $75 million this year...