Word: disturbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Master Perkins explained that the House system arose to give students the social benefits of a small college, while keeping the advantages of a great university. He emphasized that a House man's life is his own so long as he does not disturb others...
...seven months without a change of clothes. One group was playing in a shed to 65 Tommy gunners; in a corner was the command post, at which an officer gave telephone orders from time to time. At one point an actor broke off his lines and asked: "Do we disturb you?" The officer answered: "Not at all. Do we disturb...
...home, Einstein is almost unvaryingly gentle, even-tempered, meekly obedient-and impersonal. He has never tried to explain relativity to his family. His scientific life is strictly solitary. When, as often happens even at mealtimes, he falls into long mathematical reveries, his family is careful not to disturb him. This cool detachment extends even to his closest personal relationships. When his wife died eight years ago, Einstein turned stoically "from her bedside, said quietly: "Bury...
Sirs: . . . Even three days later the story seems as up-to-date as some newspaper accounts. . . . MARY KELLY KING Cayucos, Calif. Looking Forward Sirs: TIME continues to make statements which disturb me greatly. I speak in reference to your repeated comments about military strategy for World War III. I certainly am not interested in participating in any future war and believe that, if we are to plan an enduring peace, TIME should not entertain its readers with such "potential propaganda." (PFC.) BAXTER S. SCRUGGS Fort Huachuca, Ariz...
...Doubtless there are good things in both, as well as bad," he replied. "I think it is right that there should be new movements, suitable to new generations and periods. They shock and disturb those who are attached to the old institutions, but they are not meant for them. It is true, of course, that although they are intended to be 'for the people,' they end up by being for those who are running the State...