Word: frontier
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...Vannevar Bush, presidential science adviser in Science: The Endless Frontier...
...impurities," editor Lewis Lapham of Harper's has written, and their ambition was to build a New Jerusalem on earth despite all of life's uncertainties. In both spiritual and secular guise, that has been a recurring theme in U.S. history, from the Great Awakening of the early frontier days to the noble experiment of Prohibition...
...only depravity uncharted might be cannibalism, a last frontier that fastidious man has mostly declined to explore. Evil is a different sort of gourmet...
...addition, scholars at the Bunting Institute and the Murray Research Center are on the frontier of research on women's issues, Wilson said...
...like Disney World, offers relief not just from the pressures of geography (it is flat and still undeveloped) and of history (more than half the area's population arrived during the past 20 years) but, most of all, from contending ethnicity. In that sense, Orlando is a new psychological frontier, a jumping-off place for a society that revels in the surface of things, even if deeper problems remain unaddressed...