Word: idealisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...breaks men's chains, imparts freedom of soul and mind and body, lifts men ... to new and ever more creative patterns of social and spiritual responsibility." And "the American heritage is the Protestant heritage . . . Protestants came to America, settled America, made America after the likeness of their own ideal." Among the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, 34 were Episcopalians, 13 Congregationalists, six Presbyterians, one Baptist, one Quaker and one Roman Catholic. Before affixing his signature, each man bowed his head in prayer...
...decide that, despite past sins of sectarian pride and middle-class smugness, the Protestant idea today has come to its greatest moment. "Protestantism," they say, "has been inevitably cast for its role as chief adversary of Communism. For it has been Protestantism in the main which first unleashed the ideal of freedom and set it singing in the hearts...
...thumbnail description of a worthy undergraduate every seven and one half minutes. Armed with this information, the Open recruiters converge on the area (the machines always specify an area, though not the name) and sift the local high school youth for the man who mostly nearly approximates the IBM ideal. Once he is found the recruiters send in a revised description of the man who is coming, and the IBM's revise their future selections in view of the men who have already been chosen...
...that our age will be remembered chiefly neither for its horrifying crimes nor for its astonishing inventions, but for its having been the first age since the dawn of civilization, some five or six thousand years back, in which people dared to think it practicable to make . . . the ideal of welfare for all a practical objective instead of a mere Utopian dream...
Last week all the services, especially the Army and Marines, were demanding more helicopters. But they still remembered the helicopter's handicaps: lack of range and speed. Many experts believe that the ideal aircraft for assault, supply and evacuation will be a "convertiplane": a hybrid that takes off as a helicopter, flies like an airplane, then drifts down to land like a helicopter again. Last April, the Department of Defense announced development contracts for convertiplanes to Bell, Sikorsky and McDonnell Aircraft Corporations. A fourth manufacturer, Gyrodyne Co. of America, which has no contract, claims that its convertiplane...