Word: humanics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nuclear explosions are not nearly as powerful as major earthquakes, but even old-style A-bombs can send waves strong enough to pass right through the earth. They come from a small area whose position is accurately known, and since the time of the explosion is under human control, warning can be given when the man-made waves are about to start through the earth...
Special Conditions. The dilemma that must be resolved before any genuine progress towards Christian unity can occur was pinpointed best by Theologian Lewis Seymour Mudge, a Presbyterian, writing in the Christian Century: "Our problem no longer centers on the 'divinity of Christ' [but on] the humanity of Christ. Christ became man and died for all men. We know that this is so, but our theologies and our church structures make it appear that he died for only some men or for a curiously fragmented sort of man . . . We are able to say no more than that God became...
...position. Temperature and humidity would be low and constant, deep under the ice, and this is good for delicate mechanism. Under-ice supply routes would lead invisibly in from the coast, and over the base itself would spread a smooth, white plain, showing no faintest sign of human activity...
...Dead Sea Scrolls to spotting the latest comet in the telescopes of the Vatican Observatory at Castel Gandolfo. Father Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who died in 1955, was a paleontologist of world renown who unearthed conclusive evidence that the so-called Peking man discovered in China in 1929 was human. Father Francis J. Heyden of Georgetown University is a recognized expert on eclipses. Many
When Poet T. S. Eliot married his secretary early this year, the news brought with it a shock of recognition: the austere genius was, after all, like unto other men. This touch of human bondage also animates Eliot's best poetry, and again appears in this book, in which Eliot shows that he is like other men. too, in his predilection for shoptalk. In these pieces, which range in time from 1926 to the present and in subject matter from Virgil to Kipling, the poet-critic is talking shop about the poet's trade. But, Eliot being Eliot...