Word: meaningfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The committee makes some concrete suggestions, including more religion courses for undergraduates, and offers a bit of undergraduate pomposity: "What is the meaning of existence? Is there a God? . . . These questions are weighty and cosmic . . ." In the end, the report gives the Cambridge campus its blessing: "Harvard is good for...
Three years, probably more, possibly less, must be traversed before General Schriever's mighty missile graduates from test flight to what he calls I.O.C., meaning "Initial Operational Capability." Many more years will be needed to bring it into U.S.'s front-line force-in-being. But already the...
This will be the real and immediate meaning of the fateful X-day that will occur at the Air Force Missile Test Center in Florida a few weeks hence when Ben Schriever's first Model-T ICBM is lifted vertically for its first test blastoff. And while this will...
Last week, before a meeting of army and navy trainees in Moscow, Soviet Defense Minister Marshal Georgy K. Zhukov stated the Russian position in equally plain terms. The roles were reversed but the meaning was the same.
An Unknown Named Van Gogh. Bernard's role was never fully appreciated until Art Historian John Rewald told the story last autumn in his authoritative Post-Impressionism: From Van Gogh to Gauguin. In the late 1880s Gauguin was painting in the Breton village of Pont-Aven along impressionist lines...