Search Details

Word: cx (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...professionals. Laymen glancing at the June 10, 1965, issue of the Journal of Philosophy will find a brace of learned analysts discussing whether the sentence "There are brown things and there are cows" is best expressed by the formula (3x)Exw (3x)Exy or by (3x)Bx-(3x)Cx. And while the existentialists speak dramatically enough about the condition of man in novels and plays, their philosophical writing is so dense that Brandeis' Henry Aiken complains: "Reading Heidegger is like trying to swim through wet sand." One typical passage of Heidegger's alleged masterwork, Being and Time, reads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: What (If Anything) to Expect from Today's Philosophers | 1/7/1966 | See Source »

...next fiscal year will be closer to $49 billion than to $50 billion." To emphasize his point that lower spending did not mean less preparedness, McNamara announced that Johnson had approved an extra $157 million to begin development of a mammoth new military cargo transport plane, the CX. About as long as a hockey rink and double the width of a moving van, the C-X would carry up to 600 troops and their equipment-a total payload of 250,000 Ibs. It should be operational by 1969, said McNamara, and plans call for ordering 58 of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Budget: Giving & Taking | 1/1/1965 | See Source »

...Plane. On Nov. 1, Boeing will submit its revised proposals for a variable-sweep wing supersonic transport to the Federal Aviation Agency, which earlier gave Boeing's design a slight edge over Lockheed's. The company is making a strong bid to build the CX-HLS, a huge, heavy transport that is capable of putting down on unpaved strips in battle zones. Its commercial jetliners-the popular 707, the intermediate-range 720 and the new 727 tri-jet-are selling so well that the company expects to break its alltime commercial sales record of 139 jets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: Filling that Defense Void | 10/9/1964 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 |