Word: following
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...astronautics (not more than one of them in the Defense Department). The measure now goes to conference to iron out differences with a House bill passed early this month, which would create a single space boss, taking advice from a looser 17man committee but not bound to follow...
Citation: "Cultivator of the gardens of the mind, himself the very bud and bloom of humanistic learning, he follows Socrates in having taken as his modus operandi the emulous pursuit of all that is most excellent. We who in turn follow him are thankful that like his miraculous namesake in Exodus, though this Bush has long burned with the fiery ardor of true scholarship, yet has he not been consumed...
...sees him, may will himself to supermanly heights, provided his goal is proportionately lofty. But man cannot ever be absolutely certain whether his inspired goal is true or false, concluded Germany's Hans Vaihinger (Adler's "special favorite" among contemporary philosophers); the best he can do is follow it as if it were true...
...Force asked him to work out a way to help overloaded bombers take off from short runways. Von Kàrmàn's solution was the famed JATO rocket-booster unit. The only trouble was that the company lacked the capital and the production know-how to follow through on its big military contracts. For those it turned to Akron's General Tire & Rubber Co., which poured $4,000,000 into the tiny, brainy company (in return for 50% stock ownership) and installed Dan Kimball, then serving as General Tire's director of Government operations...
Which Emperor? The beautiful road that De Gaulle was mapping out might yet prove to be one that Frenchmen are too divided or too self-indulgent to follow. Perhaps, in the end, the politicians would be justified in their belief that the crucial question was not whether De Gaulle would succeed but who would succeed...