Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time in history, hold an open hearing on a new Secretary of State was an expression of some doubt about Dean Acheson-but it was a doubt that was never clearly defined, nor forcefully defended. Obviously, in an open hearing, Acheson could not talk about top-level policy. But the Senate committee did want to hear about the international affairs of Acheson's affluent Washington (D.C.) law firm, did want him to say again that he had no love for Stalin, and above all, wanted to discuss Alger Hiss. Was it true that Hiss was Assistant Secretary Acheson...
...Navy of 731 ships and 527,000 men, and a $600 million universal military training program. The President, well aware of the fact that the 80th Congress authorized a 70-group Air Force, warned: "Expenditures for national defense can be expected to rise substantially [in 1951] above the level estimated...
What are the ideas in The Rock? Blume believes he has "never made a virtue of obscurity, but there's always more than one level of interpretation to a thing. For instance the rock symbol is bound to be enigmatic. Biblically it's the deity, the source. This rock started out spherical, egg-shaped. Then in the process of working it out I made a fission, a break in it. There's a lot of destruction going on all through the picture-the phosphorescence of decay-but I think the emphasis is on construction. Compositionally the figures...
...time, a University spokesmen said that he doubted the value of geography as a College-level study...
...that, like English composition, those who need it most usually do not take it on their own initiative. It would be well to consider instituting a test for incoming freshmen not only to discover speech defects and any marked difficulties in expression, but to aim for a basic level of self-expression...