Word: means
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WISCONSIN'S BILL PROXMIRE: "A true liberal recognizes the change, recognizes the new problems. To advocate a balanced budget or to guard against inflation does not mean we are no longer liberal...
...fastest-rising educator in the U.S. public-school system is a 39-year-old suburban schoolmaster who has made his career by energetically corseting the careless middle-class spread of the community-controlled school. "Too often," says Dr. George Brain, "we in America seem to mean that an equal education should be an identical education...
...Lucerne Milk (U.S.) is peddled by "Satellite McCool," a beatnik, bop-talking pianist, busy playing far-out music. Asked for his musical preference, Satellite says he likes his own stuff. "I mean classical, like Beethoven. Where is it??" Asked for the essence of his philosophy, he answers dreamily: "Where am I??" Then he pulls a container of Lucerne Milk out of the piano...
...time commonly used by astronomers, which navigators call Greenwich mean time...
Despite its swift progress, the industry is on the verge of new breakthroughs in steel manufacturing and processing that could mean substantial cost cuts. The most important development in steel in decades is the basic oxygen process, developed in Austria seven years ago, in which a jet of pure oxygen is blown into molten steel held in a special converter. The oxygen accelerates the refining action of the metal, burns out impurities, uses less scrap metal. An oxygen vessel costs only about one-half of open-hearth facilities, turns out steel ingots in 35 minutes, v. ten to twelve hours...