Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foreign students from 53 countries, most of them technology-starved lands, the Palace of Science is a cathedral of know-how. Few worship harder than 400 Chinese students, the biggest foreign group. They keep to themselves, deplore pleasure of any kind. One Chinese student made the mistake of skipping lunches and saving enough money for a radio. When his comrades got the word, he was severely reprimanded, told that all savings should go to "national welfare." He promptly sold his little radio and sent the money to Peking...
...without giving reasons, says only that his decisions come from "the vapor of experience." Out of this fog has come an almost uninterrupted string of correct answers on what cards the fickle U.S. public will buy. "I have a hard time explaining why." says Hall. "But I know-there's something in the past years that's telling...
...inexplicably lurched toward Curtice, and caught the full blast in his head.* "That's one of the things I can't understand," a haggard Harlow Curtice told a press conference the next day. "He may have stumbled. The ground was very uneven. I don't know why he didn't stay down...
Logic, argues Russell, cannot provide a man with a set of ethical beliefs. Russell does not even claim to know why he himself believes in the virtue of free inquiry, though logic can tell him the implications of such a belief: "If, for example, it is held that one should act with honesty, then this does not depend on the size, shape or color of those with whom one happens to be dealing. In this sense, then, the ethical problem gives rise to the conception of the brotherhood of man. It is a view first stated explicitly in the ethical...
...church in Britain; now he can occasionally be seen looking in its direction with the suspicion that perhaps that is where the body of ethics lies buried. His refutation of Plato's ethics, which tended to equate virtue with knowledge, is a case in point. Men who know most, suggests Russell (who knows a great deal), are not necessarily the best...