Word: fragment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biggest change of all was one that McPherson itself would be the last to recognize. In a short twelve months, the town had cast aside its old measurements of comfortable solidity. Challenged by a fragment of the world's demands on the U.S., McPherson was trying-as a whole humble people was trying-to "act like Christians" and measure...
...that a systematically consistent world-scheme is not a necessary requirement for his understanding of science, Conant carries this idea to other fields of inquiry. There is no reason, he claims, to have one world hypothesis to explain all human endeavors either. We should build working hypotheses for each fragment of knowledge in order to have guides to action...
...Iron Mistress (Warner) is a dull-edged western about Frontiersman James Bowie (Alan Ladd) and his famous knife. According to this Technicolored biography, the Bowie knife-i.e., the iron mistress-was forged out of steel into which was fused the fragment of a meteor ("For better or worse, the knife has a bit of heaven in it-or a bit of hell," says one of the characters). So miraculously keen and deadly is this weapon that with it Bowie can kill off any number of his enemies-when he is not demolishing them, that is, with pistols, sword...
Then, while robed priests shook incense and chanted the Buddhist sutras, they bowed before a golden reliquary containing a fragment of Buddha's bones. In a welcoming speech, Prince Mikasa, Emperor Hirohito's youngest brother, told them: "I believe a new mission has been added to Buddhist circles all over the world-a mission to cope with the present atomic...
...portrait of a saint," writes Clare Boothe Luce, "is only a fragment of a great and still uncompleted mosaic-the portrait of Jesus." Although a sizable portion of Christendom (including the Roman Catholic, Anglican and Orthodox communions) honors the saints as man's intercessors with God, historical distances have dimmed most saintly portraits even for the modern Christian, to say nothing of the skeptic who lives next door. To show the "timeliness" of the saints in 1952, Clare Luce has edited Saints for Now (Sheed & Ward; $3.50), 20 sketches of triumphant Christians of the past...