Word: main
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best concepts and best context of his community. "Action," "dynamic" and "capability" are among his favorite words, and all three have come to a knot in Missileman Schriever at a critical point in time. "We simply must maintain the deterrent capability," he repeats insistently. "It's our main objective in life...
Demolition of the Rogers block on Main St. is expected to begin within the next six months as a result of action taken Monday by the Council. Another redevelopment program at the "Riverview block" on Mt. Auburn St. is now "well-advanced in the planning stage" and is said to be "about two years" behind the Rogers project...
...most farsighted program would be a larger appropriation spent over the six-year period. The outlay is not extravagant. This longer period means that main expenditure could begin after the fiscal year, satisfying economy hounds, and giving Southern communities time to consider their reward for graciously accepting the inevitable. At any rate, some measure should go through, because millions of post-war babies are crying for knowledge...
...similarly heartening to note the faculty co-operation in the campaign. A classics professor has offered his services as "A Homer," an English professor has promised to place the neo-Homeric chronicle in the main-stream of American literature, and an Economics professor has promised to mention the campaign in his forthcoming Book-of-th-Month Club selection...
...evade craven-lyi" 3) "Don't .attack vindictively!" 4) "Don't rush rashly!" The Three Do's: 1) "Do grapple courageously!" 2) "Do cooperate creatively!" 3) "Do adventure spiritually!" All of this is achieved by putting oneself in a semihypnotic trance, the main danger of which "is that you might go to sleep." If sleep is evaded, one flips to the front of the book and charts one's emotional score on a "Mood Meter" which contains 30 ratings from + 15 ("Ecstatic") to -15 ("Miserable"), with such in-between moods as +9 ("Gay") and -11 ("Disgusted...