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Word: dispersionism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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3. Dispersion of facilities, "rather than trying to concentrate in and around Harvard Sq." This would remove "the pressure of Harvard expansion" from the city.

Author: By Howard L. White, | Title: City Council Divides Over Sale of Land | 2/17/1959 | See Source »

Indeed, the only justified misgivings lie in the opposite direction. De Gaulle's Constitution, rather than achieving a perhaps impossible synthesis between the General's two assumptions, merely juxtaposes them. La Fontaine's fable of the pot of iron and the pot of clay comes to the mind: the possibilities...

Author: By Stanley H. Hoffmann, | Title: General DeGaulle's Attempt At Squaring the Circle | 9/30/1958 | See Source »

There was much to be done: prayers, lustrations, holy meals-and the sacred scrolls must be taken to the nearby caves and hidden from the impious enemy. Then the Romans came, and in that summer A.D. 68 the Community of the New Covenant at Qumran sank beneath the surging tide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Out of the Desert | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

The Atomic Energy Commission celebrated its tenth anniversary this week by letting out a few of its secrets. The U.S. is spending $2 billion a year to run its nuclear plants and laboratories. AEC reported, as much as it cost the nation to develop and produce the original atom bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ATOMIC ENERGY: Ten Years of Growth | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

In Yeatsian distress the Harvard community gazes anxiously at the widening gyre of its dramatic activities. With at least a dozen groups already formed and new ones blossoming each month, there is some ground for this mild hysteria. Opinions differ as to the nature of the problem--some say that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leda and the Schwalb | 2/18/1956 | See Source »

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