Word: fluxes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world grimly determined that nothing shall remain static, the change-weary veteran who returns to Cambridge finds here no "back-to-normalcy" balm. Wherever he looks he sees a college in flux. His departure, it would seem, was the signal for new and uncertain educational ventures...
...Idea of Christ in the Gospels confronts the reader with no such unpleasant choice of illusion or disillusion. Now Santayana accepts the illusion. If religion is a myth, he says, no disparagement is thereby implied, since science, philosophy, history and other "images" of the universal flux are also myths. "In a word, fate decrees that we shall take our ideas to be knowledge; and in this we are not misled. . . . Nothing in this knowledge bears to be pressed or scrutinized too closely; but most of it, if taken lightly and conventionally, as we take language, helps to carry us prosperously...
Policy of Drift. Clement Attlee had arrived at a time when U.S. foreign policy was in a state of flux. The firm tone of President Truman's Navy Day speech was not followed by firm action. Fortnight ago, Pundit Walter Lippmann had complained: "It is quite clear . . . that our foreign relations are not under control, that decisions of the greatest moment are being made in bits and pieces without the exercise of any sufficient overall judgment ... by the President and his chief advisers...
Europe too was pitted with craters of political flux-in south Italy (where the Communist riots-TIME, July 16-were spreading); in Spain (where Francisco Franco was reported ready to dissolve the fascist Falange); in France (where General Charles de Gaulle was increasingly at loggerheads with the increasingly powerful leftist organizations...
Soft Job. These two basic instruments are supplemented by a number of others: a gyro flux gate compass (TIME, Oct. 25), an automatic control for the supercharger, electronic devices to open and close the engine cowl flaps for proper cooling. The Flying Fortress now has 323 instruments, of which five of the most important are automatic, gyro-operated controls...