Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ithiel de Sola Pool, professor of Political Science at MIT, and a major proponent of the Project, has been noted for his opinions on the proper public role of social scientists. In a 1967 essay entitled "The Necessity for Social Scientists Doing Research for Governments" he wrote...
Stein, who holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, first gained attention in the economics profession at age 28 by winning a $25,000 prize from the Pabst Brewing Co. for the best essay on how the U.S. could achieve full employment after World War II (he recommended retraining defense workers and reducing taxes to stimulate the economy). The next year, 1945, he joined the business-supported Committee for Economic Development. Eventually he became its chief economist, and later a senior fellow at Washington's influential Brookings Institution, which is a sort of stud farm for top Government...
...making a sales pitch for his product, lean, scholarly Joseph Chamberlain Wilson once quoted in Latin a homily from a Montaigne essay: Fortis imaginatio general casum (A strong imagination begets the event). In his own case, it took twelve years of imagining the possibilities of an obscure invention for any historic event to occur, but the result was one of the most successful single products ever put on sale: the Xerox machine. By the time he died of a heart attack last week at the age of 61, while lunching in Manhattan with Nelson and Happy Rockefeller, Wilson had turned...
...prevented from buying enough advertising to make himself known. A congressional incumbent can take credit for roads and dams in his district and inundate his constituents with campaign mail sent free of charge from his office. Only by spending considerable money can a challenger usually catch up (TIME Essay...
...moment at least it seems premature to worry about the godlessness of the young. If anything, there is an excess of religiosity. Consider the replies received when last year Stanford University asked its applicants to write an essay on what subjects they would like to write a book about...