Word: freshness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they were hard to isolate and define. Individual scientific achievements are a causative factor in the development of society: "Something creative can be attributed to Newton, but I'm in reaction against the view that a few great men make the history of science. Each individual is a fresh influence on the world...
...Direction. On a highway near Modena, Italy, someone painted a fresh, straight, white center line at a sharp curve, sent 14 cars into a ditch...
...epoch of Hawaii's history, founded families of growing influence. Trade prospered as huge sugar fields spread across the flatlands and mountainsides; captains of trade were the so-called "Big Five"-massive trading, shipping and factoring companies. The economy boomed, while more and more the prosperous agriculturists imported fresh shiploads of Japanese and Chinese labor. The influx, guided by the paternalistic Big Five, began subtly to change the island character as intermarriages produced new breeds of natives, new workers for the fields, new artisans, professional people and politicians...
After that, there was a daily airlift of captured Africans: 249 were arrested and 136 deported, among them Nyasaland's only African lawyer and only African physician. Hour after hour the government press office, its walls anachronistically decorated with inviting travel posters, ground out fresh communiqués-a road block put up here, a prison stormed there, a European game warden and a forest ranger attacked elsewhere. Against the clubs, stones and pan gas of the Africans, the government had Bren guns, Sten guns, spotter planes-even Vampire jets-plus the services of the King's African...
...Paulus Tillich grew up, "one lived from Advent to Christmas to Pentecost. At Easter we children walked through the town with bundles of birch rods. It was the custom to beat the adults to get Easter eggs from them. Oh, how well I remember the wonderful fragrance of the fresh leaves!" At eight, Paul had his first brush with his future when "I encountered the conception of the Infinite." By the time he was 16, he knew he wanted to be a philosopher, and to this chancy calling the ministry seemed the most convenient opening wedge. "I was interested...