Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...civilization"). He came to the U.S. in 1910, became naturalized in 1920, but left in 1953 "with a broken heart," after some extremist members of the Jewish community attacked an apparent shift in his views toward Christianity ("Intolerance among my own people has been too much of a handicap for me to work"), eventually (1956) settled in Israel, where, he said, he found peace of mind...
Radio astronomy had its beginnings in the U.S., but it has been brought to its highest point in Britain, whose frequently leaden skies handicap optical telescopes. It is still a young science, with surprises coming thick and fast. A vast assortment of radio waves filters down from the sky. Some of the waves come from nearby planets and the sun. Others come from patches of faintly luminous gas, or from the clouds of cold hydrogen drifting among the stars. The new telescope is fitted for recording all these faint whispers on wave lengths from ten centimeters to about 20 meters...
...come; he had read David Copper field 101 times. The son of Scotch-Irish immigrants, Weir quit school at 15 to support his widowed mother, worked as a $3-a-week office boy for a Pittsburgh wire company, later said he did "not consider it a handicap for a boy in his teens to have to go to work. Being forced to earn one's living strengthens character, equips for bigger battles." By 1905 Weir was manager of a U.S. Steel Corp. plant; at 30 he bought a wheezing West Virginia tinplate mill...
Foreign Policy. Swarthy, slight (5 ft. 4 in. 130 Ibs.) Premier Kishi is as avid a golfer as President Eisenhower, happily looks forward to a match with Ike at Burning Tree this week. His handicap is a "state secret,'' but under the pressure of work it has gone up from 15 to 21. No state secret are the "suggestions" for a "new era" in Japanese-U.S. relations that he will raise with Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles. Basic to Kishi's problem, as his political opponents are well aware, is an ominous statistic...
Secondly, these faculties are excellent teaching faculties, but while they include individual scholars of renown, they are not centers of research. The teaching and counseling duties constitute a severe handicap to research. At Swarthmore the teacher performs in both seminar and courses, and this can result in a schedule requiring the equivalent of five half courses and two one-term seminars in a year, or an average of up to thirteen teaching hours per week. With time allowed for preparation, this figure may almost preclude a research faculty...