Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mind from ignorance and prejudice and giving the student an "opportunity to develop considered standards of value." To do this the College must give the student some idea of our "common tradition of human experience" and also attempt to provide him with the "intellectual tools with which he can confront new problems successfully...
...accusers were or how trustworthy their information. The board had only seen the FBI's anonymous reports gleaned from unsworn informants.In his dissent to the court's decision, Justice Henry W. Edgerton objected: "Without trial by jury, without evidence and without even being allowed to confront her accusers or to know their identity, a citizen of the United States has been ..." A found disloyal Government to the worker's career and Government reputation, he added, are now "at the mercy not only of an innocently mistaken informer but also of a malicious or demented one unless...
...public office and a long term of service in this House, I am convinced no one can learn the rules of procedure for this House in any New York nightclub. I am also convinced . . . that no one can solve any of these great social and legislative problems which confront us through nocturnal meditations on 52nd Street. We can solve them only by staying on the job right here...
...theory is checked experimentally. Einstein's relativity was proved rather simply by actually observing the shift it predicted in the apparent position of stars. Checking his latest theory will be harder. Said Einstein: "Due to mathematical difficulties, I have not yet found a practicable way to confront the results of the theory with experimental evidence...