Word: furthered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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I was shocked at the cover. The greatest kindness to Pasternak would be not to print one further word about him. He wants to stay and die in Russia.
Building further their brothers-under-the-greenbacks camaraderie, ardent Art Fancier Averell Harriman, Democratic Governor of New York, offered to Republican Governor-elect Nelson Rockefeller, an art lover even more ardent, a token of no hard feelings: the loan of eight etchings and two oils by James Abbott McNeill Whistler...
There are notable and heroic exceptions. One pastor and his wife, both university graduates, abandoned hope of further academic schooling for their five children rather than submit them to Youth Dedication. All five backed up their parents, are learning manual trades instead. One bishop's son renounced higher education...
The only reason for studying a language, Conant observed, is to achieve "something approaching a mastery. And by this I mean the ability to read with ease a foreign newspaper and discuss it intelligently with a native of the country in question . . . This degree of mastery . . . cannot be reached in...
Even the answer will leave a further mystery, Dr. Lovell admits. A universe that is still being created and that had no beginning is as hard to understand as one that "began" with a primeval atom. Creation, all at once or bit by bit, seems equally hard for scientific theory...