Word: fullnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...faith, which rests on assumptions as unprovable as any other faith. Knowledge through scholarship is justified and constant questioning become the chief paths to this summum bonum. There are of course all the institutional trappings of a visible church: the hierophantic gamut running from teaching fellow to full professor; the sacraments of grades and commencement, the semi-monastic existence of acolyte graduate students, and ordained faculty...
Thus, whereas only a twelfth of Harvard's undergraduates, describe their political temperament as "radical" --judging from the questionnaire--over a seventh support "full socialization of all industries," more than a fifth favor socialization of the medical profession, and nearly a third believe that the Federal government should own and operate all basic industries, such as steel and railroads. In a society that accepts such phrases as "free competition" and "private enterprise" as its conventional rhetoric, it is curious to find extensive support--even among students--for socialization and similar radical proposals...
...army of 47 MTA buses herded the crowds to the Club for a full day's activities and dancing at night. During the day some families took bus trips to nearby Manchester Yacht Club, to Salem for an historical tour, or to Singing Beach. There a few brave souls, who, according to the class clown, "will never make their 50th., swam in 58 degrees ocean surf. On the links, E. Howard Roorbach, with a gross 82, and William T. Piper Jr., with a 33 putting score, took honors...
...issue involved in the railroads' financial difficulties: union featherbedding. After reporting that conductors, brakemen, engineers, firemen, et al. in 1958 worked on the average only 57% of the hours for which they were paid, against 64% in 1947, the commission lamely concluded that "railroad work-rules and certain full-crew laws may unjustifiably involve uneconomic use of labor," said that a further "comprehensive review of labor-management relations is required...
...West Germany's AEG (electrical equipment) from $83 to $91. and Bayer (chemicals) from $93 to $105. One reason for particular U.S. interest in Germany: if a foreign investor holds his West German stock for more than three months, he pays no taxes, thus can use his full long-term profits for further investment...