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...health, McFarland thinks." The article is concluded: "Anyway, 300 m.p.h., he thinks, is plenty fast enough." These statements do not represent my views and I doubt that they can be substantiated or inferred from the book [Human Factors in Air Transport Design] unless statements have been taken out of context or distorted by the reviewer's own interpretation...
Spiritual Etymology. "In the last analysis, the full meaning of words which have elsewhere become so hard to define authoritatively . . . was given to our Western civilization by the Bible. And liturgy makes these words live in their Biblical context, thus unceasingly restoring them to their spiritual etymology.. . . The true problem of the century is that of the community. It is bound up with the problem of a common language. Liturgy can contribute toward recreating and authenticating this language; but only under two equally determinative conditions: it must remain Biblical at its source, and it must find a contemporaneous form...
...context of our efforts at Geneva to stabilize world economy, and so minimize the privation and unrest that lead to Communism and possible war, the amendment seems again a bootless move. Undersecretary of State Clayton has felt sufficiently convinced of this to return from Geneva and oppose the amendment...
...dull-depending on who says what. Its reporters either euphemize or ignore profanity (Hansard tactfully fails to hear Ernie Bevin when he says, as he often does, in debate, "By God"). They will take down cries of "Hear! Hear!" but do not record laughter, cheers or jeers unless the context of speeches requires it. Unlike the Record, it is uncluttered with Members' undelivered speeches. The editors will let an M.P. replace only such Parliamentary divots as split infinitives and wrong dates...
Half the conferees were clergymen and half were psychiatrists. For two days they discussed such subjects as marriage counseling and the treatment of the bereaved. What they said to each other was a closely guarded secret; the congregation-minded clergy, nervous about being caught in a Freudian context, were none too anxious to publicize the discussion. But the meaning of the conference-lay not so much in what was said as in the fact that the two groups were officially speaking...