Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...frontier is gone but for the sons of the pioneers the instinct lingers on. To the desk of Nebraska's Senator Hugh Butler came the letter of a 14-year-old constituent. "I've written the Bureau of Land Management to inquire about buying property on Venus," it said. "I received the reply that it had no authority to give ownership. Therefore, I am asking you to write a bill. Something which would in the Senate further my interests. I am neither joking nor have I read too much science fiction. It appears that colonization of the universe...
...maneuvering was carefully planned, and showed a cunning recognition of ways to achieve substantial effects in the West with means-a dismantled frontier gate, the freeing of a William Oatis-which neither cost them much nor relaxed their grip on power. It was all neatly timed: the French were fumbling in disorder; Sir Winston Churchill talked nostalgically of "a new Locarno"; the U.S. Administration, still trying to come to grips with the realities of responsibility, was pinned between the belief that it must seize the initiative from Moscow and the fear that it is not smart enough to avoid falling...
...much the Reds themselves acknowledged; how much more went on? Radio Free Europe, just across the Czech frontier, painstakingly analyzed reports by travelers and refugees and filled out the story...
Lawrence, an Episcopalian, said later that he would have preferred granting the property to members of his same faith, but since the Methodist sect was the frontier religion, they could make better use of it. Lawrence was careful to insure, however, that the College would not be denominational and forbade "propagating the tenets of any sect." In 1932 the College severed all remaining religious bonds with the Methodists, so that while religion continues to be a prime force on the campus, it is more than ever non-denominational...
Lawrence, an Episcopalian, said later that he would have preferred granting the property to members of his same faith, but since the Methodist sect was the frontier religion, they could make better use of it. Lawrence was careful to insure, however, that the College would not be denominational and forbade "propagating the tenets of any sect." In 1932 the College severed all remaining religious bonds with the Methodists, so that while religion continues to be a prime force on the campus, it is more than ever non-denominational...