Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which 65,000 Europeans, 165,000 Asians and 35,500 Arabs hold more seats and power than do 6,000,000 Africans. The Africans demand universal suffrage, one-man-one-vote democracy, and full independence now. Macleod may not want to give it "now," but his sharp, trained intellect (he is an international-class bridge player) is sufficiently acute to recognize that there can be no solid African policy in Kenya without the support of the vast African majority...
Einstein's theory of relativity was one of the giant leaps of the human intellect. So impressive was it that for years most physicists have accepted it as the fundamental law of the universe, even though no one had devised methods or machines sensitive enough to verify it completely. Last week its most basic concept triumphantly passed the most rigorous test...