Word: fruits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this week, as, standing on the rostrum of the House, he delivered the fruit of all this husbandry to a joint session of Congress, it was clear that Harry Truman had been the victim of too much conferring, too much polishing, too much looking over his shoulder at his critics. By the time he was finished, it was apparent that he could have delivered his message in either the Union League Club or a union hall, without getting many cheers or jeers in either place...
...Four, the U.N., the 21-nation meeting in Paris. The climax of these meetings, often deadlocked and always difficult, came with the simultaneous sessions of U.N. and the Foreign Ministers in New York. At these meetings the U.S. policy of "patience and firmness" with Russia began to bear fruit after a year of frustration and delay in the making of the peace. After the New York adjournments Byrnes left for a well-earned vacation. The Cleveland speech will be his first since the New York sessions. It will also be the first time that Byrnes and Vandenberg have ever appeared...
...week . . . even enables him to keep his 16-year-old son in college. The French engineer earns good pay, but black markets keep decent rations, shoes and clothing out of his grasp.. . . The man in the cab in India, on $39 a month, never sees fruit for his family, rarely gets meat. The veteran engineer in London still struggles for comfort. Good food is hard to get, clothing too high-priced for him.. . . Only in Stockholm and New York does the engineer know true comfort...
...board: Harvard President James Bryant Conant; Dr. Lee A. DuBridge, president of the California Institute of Technology; Nobel Prize Physicists Enrico Fermi (University of Chicago) and I. I. Rabi (Columbia University); ex-Los Alamos Director J. R. Oppenheimer (University of California); Hartley Rowe, chief engineer of the United Fruit Co. ; Chemistry Professor Glenn T. Seaborg (University of California), Cyril Stanley Smith, director of the University of Chicago's Institute of Metals; Hood Worthington, chemical engineer for E. I. Du Pont de Nemours...
...married, used up his inheritance in publishing his books, and died in 1855 at the age of 42-just when his money had run out. But that was Kierkegaard's life on the surface. His real life was a long, exciting, bitter, lonely struggle within himself. The fruit of that' struggle was his "existential" philosophy of subjectivity. To him the path to absolute truth was in "inwardness"-one of his favorite words...