Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marquand sensed that he had acquired another appreciative group. "I only wish I could stay in this House longer," he remarked. "I had accepted the House system intellectually, but I never realized the full impact of it until I lived here. I wish all the Overseers would come and stay here for a few days to see how much Harvard life has changed since their time...
...incurred the first major installment of its massive debt to Hungarian-born scientists. Physicist Leo Szilard, leaping in thought from laboratory fission to atomic bomb, set out to urge the U.S. Government to get an atomic-research project going. Reasoning that a letter to President Roosevelt would have maximum impact if signed by Einstein, Szilard recruited his fellow Hungarian Edward Teller to chauffeur him out to Peconic Bay, N.Y., where Einstein was vacationing. Einstein signed, and the eventual result was the Manhattan Engineer District project that produced history's first atomic bomb...
Election & Ejection. As he faced the Assembly to ask for investiture last week, the emotional impact of the occasion imparted a tremor to Gaillard's normally resonant voice. Then he steadied and briskly outlined his program. Main points: special powers for pursuing the war in Algeria (including a new appeal to the rebels for a ceasefire, a new discussion of the loi cadre), a 100 billion-franc slash in government expenditures, new taxes and price controls...
...century America by the head and heart; Christianity and the Social Crisis lit the Protestant beacon that came to be known as the Social Gospel. Last week a round table at the University of Chicago's Federated Theological Faculty honored Author Walter Rauschenbusch with a discussion of his impact and influence on U.S. Protestantism...
...most unusual movie, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre proves that the melodramaticgenre need not follow a pattern--there is scarcely a woman in the movie, and one is slightly uncertain if there is a hero--and that it can have a considerable intellectual as well as emotional impact...