Word: lesson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ANATOMY LESSON AND OTHER STORIES (214 pp.)-Evan S. Connell...
Joseph H. Choate, the American Ambassador to England said that he had learned a great lesson from the contest--that two nations could oppose each other and fight it out to the bitter end, and yet remain good friends...
...rooms in Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus, St. Louis, Fresno, Phoenix and Portland as well as Washington and Seattle. Late in the week the impromptu network added three more stations, Baltimore's WAAM, WBAL and WMAR, the second time in the week that these three gave their networks a pointed lesson in public service. One classic network argument against special live news coverage is the heavy cost in sponsored shows that must be canceled. The three Baltimore stations produced a sensible rebuttal. When the House Un-American Affairs Committee scheduled six sessions in Baltimore last week, each station agreed to carry...
...Want to Forget." Night after the President's press conference, both Edgar and Milton Eisenhower were guests at a White House stag dinner. Milton and Ike took Edgar aside for a brief lesson on how to keep out of trouble while talking to news-hungry reporters. Ike chided Edgar about his budget comments, asked how much Edgar's own office expenses had gone up. Edgar hedged. He had recently moved into a spanking new office (in Tacoma's Puget Sound Bank Building) and therefore had no basis for comparison, he said. Leaving the White House, Edgar said...
Oppenheimer spent most of this William James Lecture discussing a pertinent example from his own field. He explained that although in physics "we have all the breaks," the lesson learned from the example he cited might show the way to how the problems of redefinition might arise and how man may cope with them...