Word: half
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Most things get worse as far as I can see. This shirt I'm wearing is not half as good as the ones I could buy years ago. The things that are getting better are cars and perhaps airplanes--I hope so, I'm going up in one Sunday. We only fly upon the crashes of former planes. It's the detailed reports on crashes that keep...
...eleventh, 1918, Armistice Day. Violence burst out in my Cambridge, the other Cambridge, medical students on the rampage. I renewed contact with C. K. Ogden late that night because he had suffered from damage anud I was a witness and could help him. We stopped at eleven o'clock half way down my little twisting stairs (I rented a couple of rooms from him in a decrepit old house next to the Cavendish Laboratory), somehow we stopped there and started talking about meaning...
...suddenly got together and went on having the most enormous fun, I believe, two people have ever had--writing The Meaning of Meaning. It doesn't perhaps look as though it was such fun, but it was much of it written in the spirit of "Here's a nice half-brick, whom shall we throw...
...organizations receiving money from the Drive, only Phillips Brooks House Association and the Wellmet Project, a half-way house for mental patients, were on last year's list of recommended charities...
...LEARNED some things, too. "Perhaps the greatest single lesson a President learns is that America's power to control events in the world is limited." That is why LBJ only sent half a million men to Vietnam and kept the rest at home. He also learned about national defense. "The Soviet Union is the only nation on earth that possesses a destructive force similar to ours. Theirs is some what less in size, but the average human being would not be able to detect the difference in being hit by 30,000 tons of explosive or 15,000 tons...