Word: founded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dock and steel strikes, President Eisenhower last week set in motion a device which, despite continuing criticism, has had better than fair success over the past twelve years. The law's aim is to ensure production for an 80-day "cooling-off period" in strikes or threatened strikes found to imperil the "national health or safety," thereby giving management and labor a chance to resume negotiations toward a new contract. How it works...
...general the U.S. officials found reason to hope that Khrushchev was sincere in his assurances that he sought peace. Khrushchev himself created the impression of a man who, at 65, knows that his years in power are numbered and would like to win his place in history by working for peace. Khrushchev expressed his belief that the era of bipolar power-i.e., the U.S. and U.S.S.R.-is nearing an end, spoke of the necessity of reaching agreements with the U.S. before Red China and India, with their human millions, come into their own economically and militarily...
After I concluded my study of Dewey's autobiographical sketch, I found out by fortunate coincidence that he was at the time visiting professor at Harvard. So early that afternoon I went to Lowell House and knocked on the door of his room. Happily, he was in. I asked John Dewey whether he would have half an hour for an interview any time in the next few days. He very generously answered, "now." So I put to him the following questions...
...found some books too, though," Mostecky said. Only last week the Library staff discovered a complete Hungarian collection they "never knew existed...
...almost-graduated Seniors may have found it strange and unfamiliar to hear a discussion of this sort at Harvard. The last time they had been addressed together, as newly arrived Freshmen, talk had centered around the practical problems of college life, such as the nature of the curriculum and the optimum participation in extra-curricular activities. Four years before they had heard very little talk of ethics or character, and since that time perhaps even less...