Word: cosmos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...added the liberal arts, today has become a unique combination of both. Unlike Wellesley girls ("just bubbling over with joyful intoxication with the world," says one Simmonsite), or Radcliffe girls ("grimly grappling with unconquerable problems"), or Smith girls ("going about with the patient but businesslike air of putting the cosmos to rights"), Simmons girls are frankly out for jobs...
...other upper level course is Natural Sciences 115, "Cosmography," to be taught by Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy. The course is "A survey of the cosmos in light of current scientific knowledge...
...went at the Prime Minister with a barbed compliment ("I freely admit that [he] is the most articulate Englishman that has ever lived . . . How did it come about that he was so much misunderstood?") and also with his coalminer's pickax: "His ego now fills the whole cosmos." Violently he played the Bevanite line that Britain's rearmament and her U.S. alliance carry her toward war. ". . . Behind the guise and façade of the United Nations, the Americans are waging an ideological war with weapons against the Soviet Union...
Some think Stalin deliberately juggles the three men to save any one of them from the temptation to speed up the process of succession. Another theory: that Molotov, Malenkov and Beria might take over together after Stalin's death, to rule the Communist cosmos as a troika (trpumvirate). Those who think this would not last long are increasingly putting their money on "Dear Georgy...
...What, then, is the importance of modern science for the argument for the existence of God based on the mutability of the cosmos? By means of exact and detailed research . . . it has considerably broadened and deepened the empirical foundation on which this argument rests . . . It has, besides, followed the course and the direction of cosmic developments and . . . pointed to their beginning in time some five billion years ago. Thus, with that concreteness which is characteristic of physical proofs, it has confirmed the contingency of the universe and also the well-founded deduction as to the epoch when the cosmos came...