Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Russia had wedged itself farther into the Middle East. It had clamped political and economic chains on Syria that would be hard to break. The economic assistance agreement signed last week sealed the bargain. Russia will lend Syria an estimated $100 million at 2.5% interest during the next seven years. If implemented as outlined, the agreement put Syria's entire future economic development into the hands of Russia...
There is, obviously, no formal "program of education." The seminars generally arise from the interests of a group of members. Some seminars, especially in the School of Mathematics, meet each week to discuss what is, in the words of Oppenheimer, "new and difficult in the field." Other seminars discuss "older material, material which may range back one or two years." At the present time, astrophysicist Bengt Stromgren, newly arrived at the Institute, is giving a series of lecture-seminars on his special field of interest...
...intellectually competent person with an interest in the subject can attend these lctures. Graduate students and professors from Princeton University often attend and, indeed are welcomed by the Institute. It is obvious, therefore, that the Institute's greatness and unique opportunity for learning is carried out to a far greater extent in the individual thinking of the members and their spontaneous intercommunication of ideas, often over the dinner table or in the office, with another member or members...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 7--The United States showed little interest today in Soviet Communist party chief Khrushchev's newest bid for a high-level East-West conference to settle cold war problems...
...very highly respected in the field; as Professor Glueck noted, McCord has done invaluable work in defining the concept of the psychopath, a concept which was very unclear before. McCord's work with the psycopath, a person with very little conscience, is closely linked to his other major interest, that of the development of conscience. He plans to do his "magnum opus" on the latter subject within the next ten years...