Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...yesterday that it has given its 17 foot, one ton telescope to the University Observatory in Climax, Colorado. The telescope, long a landmark in Rochester, where it has been fixed on top of the Bausch and Lomb Building in the center of the city, will be installed at the joint Harvard-Colorado High Altitude Observatory in Climax, before the end of the summer. Installation work will be under the direction of Donald H. Menzel, professor of Astrophysics...
Keppel left Cambridge for Washington in March, 1941, when he accepted the secretaryship of the Joint Army and Navy Committee on Welfare and Recreation of the War and Navy Departments. The committee was set up to improve morale in the armed forces by providing entertainment in and around the camp areas and bettering the communities surrounding military and naval establishments...
...joint commission sought to "implement the directive" (as they say in Washington) of last December's Conference of Foreign Ministers in Moscow, which called for a provisional Korean government. Koreans were supposed to be consulted, but the Russian idea of which Koreans to consult differed radically from the American...
...heritage by the Romantic amoralism of the Transcendental movement which he distrusted and did not understand, Hawthorne dipped back into the seventeenth century. To Wilson, convinced that Western society is breaking up, appalled by Stalinism, the tensions of his times are intolerable. finding that the times are out of joint, Wilson has, like Hawthorne, discovered in the Puritan method of allegory, with its abstract concept of Evil, the only possible vehicle for his story...
...specific solution for the German problem-the indispensable prelude to any real European settlement. Best of all, he forced a showdown on Soviet policy. Fear of German revival has been Russia's excuse for her expansionist policies in Europe. If Russia now refuses the Byrnes offer of joint big-power assistance in guaranteeing her security against such a reincarnation, she will have to find another reason for expansion that does not sound like Hitler's slogans. If Russia accepts, it should end her suspicions about U.S. cooperation...