Word: conductivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yugoslav literature (including all four novels by 1961 Nobel Laureate Ivo Andric). When he found that no first-rate history of Yugoslavia exists, Kennan decided that the embassy should write its own, one chapter per officer (his own assignment: medieval Serbia). Always the intellectual, when his turn came to conduct Sunday services at the nondenominational embassy church. Presbyterian Kennan spurned the canned sermons used by his officers, instead delivered a dissertation on "Religion as a Historical Force...
Chrysler claims that it has solved the last problem by designing a system of variable nozzles that counters the turbines' spin and brings them to a controlled stop. The company plans to conduct further engineering and cost studies, after which it will decide on volume production...
Except for the scattered handful of Carthusian houses, all Latin-rite monasteries in the world follow-with varying degrees of severity-the rule of conduct that St. Benedict of Nursia wrote down in 529 for his community of cenobites at Monte Cassino in Italy. Although faithful to this spirit, U.S. monasteries have nonetheless made some striking adaptations of Benedictine life to suit American ways. More active and outgoing than their European counterparts, U.S. monasteries operate everything from mailorder cheese businesses to country missions to diocesan seminaries; each Sunday their monks say Mass in hundreds of U.S. churches. "The fundamental difference...
...hoped the serious talks could start at once, but both sides were clearly determined to conduct things in the traditional Congolese way-lots of genial palaver as a preliminary buildup. In the afternoon, Tshombe napped in a high, hard hospital bed, while Adoula and several members of his delegation took a sightseeing tour along the cliffs over the Congo estuary. "That night the friendly palaver continued over beer, dinner, and lots of jokes about each other's misdeeds. Then they all went to bed, agreeing to get down to business next morning...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Liberal Union is preparing to mobilize University support for an upcoming nation-wide campaign to abolish the House Committee on American Activities. Reports, still unconfirmed, that the HUAC will conduct hearings in Boston this spring have spurred their action...