Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hunt had some reservations about the proposed program of completely individual research. "Education is a matter of interaction as well as action; a student can be left to his own resources only so long," he stated. "Interaction has not been provided...
...preferred "lectures by men who have written books" to "conversations with men who are reading those books," and added that "undergraduate appetite is insatiable" on this matter...
...another Christmas gift." For the first time ever, the offer was not restricted to Harris' own merchandise. Except for furs, real jewelry and merchandise not carried in its own store, Harris said it would exchange goods from its "competitors, other stores in Texas or Alaska, or for that matter anywhere in the U.S. or in the world." If a gift is pure junk, the store said it would still pay the recipient $1, donate the gift to the Salvation Army...
When that atomic Moby Dick, the nuclear submarine Nautilus, charged 1,830 miles under the North Pole and its ice pack last summer on its historic ocean-to-ocean passage, it was almost like a brilliantly calculated triumph of matter over matter. Perhaps the most striking drama was not the conflict of man v. the elements, which characterized the 19th century, but the contrast between that traditional conflict and the mid-20th century ease with which the sonar-watching, fathometer-reading, Coke-drinking crew of the Nautilus defied the elements. In Nautilus 90 North (the message Nautilus radioed to indicate...
...Audrey, and it is easy to see why Lord Rutherford did not like the erotic bits. She and Miles live it up at meetings of the Holborn Labour Party, and their sex life is described in the fiat and dogged style of Dr. Kinsey, but without the rich subject matter. It is certainly short of Ovid. Novelist Snow's introduction suggests that he put in the erotic bits to disprove the notion that scientists are "unemotional, naive, asexual." Data inconclusive...