Word: meaningfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three of the nation's leading atomic scientists were ushered into the White House one morning last week by Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss for a 45-minute conference with the President. The scientists: Edward Teller, credited with the theoretical discovery that led to a successful H-bomb...
Implicit in the report was the new military fact that the U.S. could soon have H-bombs like "tremendously more powerful TNT'' (as Lawrence put it), to destroy limited military objectives rather than to contaminate whole provinces and nations. Beyond that, the meaning of the scientists' report...
<¶After the Supreme Court decision reversing the contempt-of-Congress conviction of Union Organizer John Watkins for refusing to identify Communists he had known, an attorney for Pulitzer Prizewinning Playwright Arthur Miller observed that the Watkins decision "fits the [Miller] case like a glove." But in Washington last week...
*-Literally meaning "haughty," guappo is used in Neapolitan argot to denote a petty big shot, found its way into American slang in the early days of the melting pot as the uncomplimentary term "wop."
He was introduced by last year's Award-winner, Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, who said that we should not worry too much about the meaning of cummings' poems, that "a poem is apprehended in the ear." He termed cummings "one of the few pure lyric voices...