Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Eisenhower demonstrated his own matter-of-factness with an edict at his 126th press conference: "All of the outer space work done within the Defense Department will be under Secretary McElroy himself." McElroy put his thumbprint on an advancing age by setting up an Advanced Research Projects Agency, by appointing General Electric Vice President Roy W. Johnson, 52, to run it (see Defense). Presidential Science Adviser James R. Killian Jr. undertook a classification of ways, means and reasons for space exploration. The armed services and all space dreamers seized the moment to plug for their pet projects...
...married in a year," he says somberly, "but there are three girls I'm thinking of. I haven't met 'em yet, but it's all arranged and I'll meet 'em in the next three months. It's the same as it is with racing. No matter how good a horse you're on, you're always looking for a better...
...Interstate Commerce Commission, which approved the issue. When the Supreme Court reversed this ruling, the lower court held that Alleghany had illegally acquired control of the New York Central in 1954 because it did not get ICC approval. The court ruled that ICC would have to settle that matter before it could properly approve the new issue. The Supreme Court last week decided that the question of Central's acquisition was irrelevant, ordered the lower court to rule on the stock issue alone. Since the district court never questioned ICC's power to approve the new issue ultimately...
With gusto, he accumulated bishoprics (and illegitimate children). His taste for high life and ceremony was not merely personal; pomp and circumstance were a matter of public relations, an art in which Wolsey was a master. A high point of his career came when he stage-managed the futile but beautiful pageant known to history as the Field of Cloth of Gold: in a pleasant French valley, England's King Harry and France's young King Francis I met to pledge a treaty of friendship. It was, says Author Ferguson, "the last great canvas of the Middle Ages...
...styles are scarcely comparable. Marx-Engels wrote in fire; Kelso-Adler seem to be writing under water. Yet the book achieves a triumph of grey matter over grey manner. Four points stand...