Word: considerably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Europeans, to whom politics is grim and often deadly business, were puzzled by the rowdedow. Said one Frenchman: "I understand opera singers come and sing popular songs . . . Surely you cannot consider it sound to nominate a President by singing songs?"
To break the stalemate, the U.S. and Australian members of the Good Offices Committee whispered a plan of their own, providing for federation by 1949. Republican Premier Mohamed Hatta liked it. But Dutch Acting Governor General Hubertus van Mook refused to consider the plan, told U.S. Committee Member Coert du...
"Scientists," writes "One of Them," "are the mercenaries of modern warfare. Almost wholly devoid of humanitarian impulses, they consider their cold and analytical search for scientific knowledge more important than any current affairs of mere mortals. If a scientist is given a chance to pursue his line of research unmolested...
The author does not accept this activity as patriotism in time of war, nor does he accept the scientists' broader claim that they are not responsible for the way the world utilizes their discoveries. "I would say," writes he, "that this is the No. 1 fallacy of the scientific...
With typical restraint, the doctors concluded: "These results . . . merit further investigation with this type of anesthesia." Last week doctors in Texas, Louisiana, Illinois, Alabama, Missouri, California and elsewhere were working toward the goal of 100,000 successful deliveries: the number many physicians consider essential before they accept a method as...