Word: decays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...standing pat on the programs of the New Deal of the thirties, he let the nation lose ground to the evils which a modern New Deal should attack. Slums have continued their spread and decay. The health of those millions who cannot really afford voluntary programs is getting worse. The teacher shortage mounts everywhere. In the face of these problems, the President has done no more than wrinkle up his forehead, appoint a study commission (all have been studied for years) and mouth lofty, empty statements of concern over the "human needs" of his people...
...time than even the most sanguine German had a right to expect when he crawled from the smoking rubble one day in 1945 to learn that the Nazi Reich was no more. And, as with most great, historic turns, it was made possible by countless events. There was the decay of the wartime Alliance, Russia's shortsighted intransigence in the German occupation. There was the West's decision to form one unified country of West Germany without waiting for a peace treaty. There was the Berlin blockade, which jolted the West into the urgency of rearmament; the Korean...
...Signs of Decay. A realization that this decision may come sooner than they expect, and that it may be unfavorable, underlay a great colonial debate that welled up among Britons last week. The focus of debate was the British protectorate of Uganda, but the real context was wider. From Cape Town to Suez, the fabric of empire is visibly disintegrating. In the north, the vast Sudan fortnight ago turned its back on Britain (TIME, Dec. 7). In the south, Boer South Africa talks of becoming a republic, and of leaving the Commonwealth. In between (see map), there...
...adds Weiss, "there's no hiding the fact that we need to improve things. In the 20 years that I have been teaching at Harvard, Radcliffe, Bryn Mawr, and Yale, I have noticed a decay in spelling, grammar and ability to study. Some thing must be done. But no matter what system you have you will find the same problems; that of getting better men to teach. The best way to solve the problem is to make learning exciting. If you want excellent teachers you must give freedom to the teachers...
Comparative Ages. The age of the earth can be estimated in several ways. It loses heat to space, but it also gains heat from the decay of radioactive materials. By balancing the estimated losses against the gains, scientists have concluded that the earth's crust needed two to four billion years to reach its present temperature. The age of the crust can also be estimated by measuring the products of radioactive decay that are found in its oldest rocks. This figure comes out to about three billion years...