Word: insofar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Immortality. "God is in the world, or nowhere, creating continually in us and around us ... Insofar as man partakes of this creative process does he partake of the Divine, of God, and that participation is his immortality, reducing the question of whether his individuality survives death of the body to the estate of an irrelevancy. His true destiny as co-creator in the universe is his dignity and his grandeur...
...State Department attitude toward academic consultants may have serious consequences, Schwartz warned. "Insofar as the government restricts the number of people advising it, it is harming itself," he said...
...combination of the requirements and goals of individual services-Army, Navy, Air Force-each trying to get as much money as it could. Nobody judged these claims in the light of an overall, supra-service plan based on the total military, political and economic interest of the U.S. Insofar as there was any standard for resolving conflicts and putting the budget together, the Joint Chiefs used what they called "the balanced-forces concept." This was a high-sounding name for the convenient but irrational practice of splitting the money in three roughly equal parts...
...immediate superior said "the implications made regarding the football community are absurd and not worthy. of comment." This statement reminded the University that the students and officials who devote their time to the Harvard football team form a close-knit community with a long and proud tradition. But insofar as it implied this case was unique, the retort was dead wrong. In the last two days it has become unmistakably clear that there is something rotten in the "football community...
...most apalling. For when the buying and selling of "complimentary" seats is a systematized as it has been, a football player might just as well be receiving a weekly salary. As commercial as free books or automobiles donated by alumni, such brokerage taints the supposed purity of Harvard football. Insofar as the University allows this practice to flourish, it is subverting the progress it has made along other lines to keep Harvard football an amateur sport...