Word: existing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...current use, he points out, and it is ridiculous to assume that any one tongue, necessarily based on one culture, can be imposed on the world. Only in a one-culture world will any language become supra-national of its own accord, and such a situation does not exist today. The Soviet Union is currently waging a successful campaign to teach Russian to every one in the USSR--there are about 100 different languages spoken--but it is accomplishing this only through force...
Just criticism of the Till trial did, of course, exist, Held as it was in an almost exclusively agricultural county, the trial could not avoid having a jury composed of dirt farmers, who have had less exposure to post-war shifts in attitude than any other group in the state. This fact was noted from the onset and motivated the prosecution's legal maneuvers to have the trial moved to an adjacent county where industry has brought a softening of racial ill-feeling...
...accepted CICCU's invitation to Cambridge last August (he insisted on paying his own expenses), there was a flurry of nattering pro and con in the letters columns of the Times. "The recent increase of fundamentalism among university students cannot but cause concern," wrote an Anglican canon. "Universities exist for the advancement of learning. On that basis, therefore, can fundamentalism claim a hearing at Cambridge...
...pushed at Geneva, is really only a "prelude" to a general arms reduction. Its very premise is that the U.S. and Russia will remain fully armed. No matter how closely American planes explored Soviet territory, they could not discover a secret nuclear stockpile. An aerial detection device does not exist. Inspection by air would only assure the U.S. that Russia is not massing for a surprise attack. Yet such a system would set the military machines of both powers on edge. The slightest mistake of the enemy's intentions made by an inspecting plane could trigger off mutual destruction...
According to ideas prevailing when Dr. Lamb started work shortly after World War II, the hydrogen atom could exist in two "states," both with the same energy. Dr. Lamb was skilled in the use of microwaves, which have the property of adding small amounts of energy to atoms they hit. He shot microwaves through one "state" of hydrogen and turned it into the other "state." Since energy was absorbed in this transition, he had proved that the two states of hydrogen did not contain the same amount of energy. The difference was small but extremely important from the point...