Word: containment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...start on the job, Dr. Urey this year went to Egypt, which was covered by the sea during both geological periods. In many parts of Egypt and Israel, the rock layers formed during the transition from the Cretaceous to the Eocene are very easy to identify. They contain few fossil shells, for life was apparently scarce at that time. But Egyptian and Israeli paleontologists have promised to send him suitable specimens from above and below the dividing line. If the climate-change theory is correct, the fossils will show that Cretaceous mollusks lived in warm water and Eocene mollusks...
...when the Harvard Administration speaks of a balanced student body, it is referring to a much more complicated structure than an elite of nationally-distributed brains. It believes, for instance, that athletics makes up an important part of a college education. It believes that the College ought to contain some athletes to remain balanced...
Last March, Lieut. Evans could contain himself no longer. On the ship's bulletin board, he posted a letter he had received, and dashed off a reply to its author, wealthy Manhattan Importer Alfred Kohlberg, violent critic of U.S. China policy and ammunition handler for Senator Joe McCarthy...
Their onetime archenemy, Ohio's G.O.P. Senator John W. Bricker, could hardly contain himself on hearing their new line. "That," he kept repeating triumphantly, "was the argument I used three years ago when this bill came...
Though Poet Fry's new play may rank well below his own high par in the entertainment field, its lines contain plenty of material for concerned Christians to chew on. Sample: Thank God our time is now when wrong Rises to face us everywhere, Never to leave us till we take The longest stride of soul men ever took. Affairs are now soul size. The enterprise Is exploration into God, Where no nation's foot has ever trodden yet. . . . It takes So many thousand years to wake, But will you wake for pity's sake, Pete...