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Word: existing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...free civilian papers, those for the army papers, those for the writers of the tactical leaflets. Somewhere . . . was the official G-2 map describing actual advances and retreats . . . but even if we had access to it . . . could we be certain that another and more accurate map did not exist somewhere else...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: Guerard's Novel of Future War | 4/14/1950 | See Source »

Einstein, who believes passionately that such a law must exist, has devoted the last 30 years of his life to searching for it. A few months ago (TIME, Jan. 2), he published as an appendix to his third edition of The Meaning of Relativity his Generalized Theory of Gravitation, which he considers the long-sought link between electricity and gravitation, explaining the behavior of both electrons and stars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Lost Passion | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

...Einstein complains, no one has proved him right, and no one has proved him wrong. The theoretical physicists, he says, act as if gravitational effects did not exist: "I do not believe that it is justifiable to ask, 'What would physics look like without gravitation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Lost Passion | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

...mistake about it." The West was now, and would always be, at odds with a philosophy which claimed "a monopoly of the knowledge of what was right and what was wrong for human beings . . . Yet it does not follow from this that the two systems, theirs and ours, cannot exist concurrently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Peace, But Not at Any Price | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

...solve the problem of struggling colleges is simply to let them expire. Some administrators are sure that the country would be better off if many of its second-rate colleges folded. They feel that the educational value of these institutions is doubtful, and that many of them exist only because of the G. I. Bill. Some of these men think a trend to consolidation is a good thing; they like President Conant's plan of community junior colleges, which would have educational advantages as well as economic ones...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crisis in Education | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

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