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...letter to Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, Wyzanski declared that acceptance of the position "would be inconsistent with what I deem to be the deepest moral obligations of my office as a judge of the U.S. Courts...
Kurchatov's last paragraph must have tantalized his Harwell listeners: "On appraising the various approaches to the problem of obtaining intense thermonuclear reactions, we do not deem it possible to completely exclude further attempts to attain this goal by using pulsed discharges. However, other possibilities must also be carefully considered. Especially interesting are those in which the idea of stationary processes may be used...
...Appalled" by obsolete building code requirements, Anderson cited one in Massachusetts requiring one washroom to every 10 or 11 pupils, whereas sanitation officials deem one for every 30 more than adequate...
...conscious that in this year 1956 there still rages the age-old struggle between those who believe that man has his origin and his destiny in God and those who treat man as if he were designed merely to serve a state machine. Hence we deem it useful to declare again certain truths and aims upon which we are united and which, we are persuaded, are supported by all free nations...
...specified that their three-paneled painting be done "inside and out with gold, blue and silver of the best and finest." In payment they offered Fra Angelico "one hundred and ninety gold florins for the whole and for his craftsmanship, or for as much less as his conscience shall deem it right to charge...