Word: containers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...photographed in a southern Tibetan monastery. He had fled there to escape the Red Chinese hordes advancing on Lhasa, capital of his theocracy, to which he returned later that year. In the picture, the Dalai's Lord Chamberlain shows him a golden urn said to contain the ashes of Buddha's two chief disciples...
...Hillel aims lower: at the translation of technical prose, which is not normally written for literary effect and does not require a literary translation. But even this problem is a tough one. A large German dictionary, says Bar-Hillel, contains about 400,000 entries, and since each entry has an average of four or five derivatives, the total number of German words is about 2,000,000. Each of these words, in turn, can be translated into English in about ten ways. So a German-English mechanized dictionary would contain about 30 million words...
Local defense will always be important. But there is no local defense which alone will contain the mighty land power of the Communist world. Local defense must be reinforced by the further deterrent of massive retaliatory power. [The Administration had made a basic decision] to depend primarily upon a great capacity to retaliate instantly by means and at places of our choosing...
...daughter go to that mess after she begged me and swore that she'd try to be good. But when she came reeling in at 12:30 at night after escaping the fleshpots of Harvard, I just couldn't contain myself. Now, other mothers can let their daughters go off like that, but I have to worry about my daughter's position and her standing at Radcliffe. I'll just bet that other mothers feel the same. A Radcliffe Mother (Name Withheld by Request...
...forms contain ten "yes" or "no" questions; the first four are aimed at determining whether or not the General Education courses are succeeding in instilling "a sense of values" in the students...