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Wald likened science to a vast patchwork quilt full of holes which scientists are trying to mend. He emphasized the importance of free exchange of ideas in the scientific world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SANSS Speakers See "Correctness" Mark of Science | 2/16/1949 | See Source »

...over the next five years. But nobody in the industry thought hat the government fund could work a cure by itself; they hoped it would lure private capital back into the films. And he most enlightened knew that in any event the bankers would first want the moviemakers to mend their extravagant ways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Crisis in Britain | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

...total: 57, including business staff). Since the staff employees are all party members, they are subject to the party's discipline, which rules out such bourgeois reporters' vices as office parties and poker games. Staffers caught breaking the rules must apologize in public meetings and promise to mend their ways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The House on Twelfth Street | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

Roger Wach's strained leg muscle is on the mend and he will probably be ready for Army. If not, Shapiro or Bob Abboud, who took Wach's place at Columbia, will handle the 136-pound duties. Bob Claffin is a reliable 175-pounder and heavyweight Howle Houston is picking up more and more wrestling know-how to go along with his tremendous strength and cat-like reflexes. He should be able to hold his own against the rest of the heavyweight opposition...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Jordan Must Revamp Mat Team Next Term | 1/27/1949 | See Source »

...display both energy and imagination in the four lean years ahead, then 1952 can in fact be the year of liberation from the selfish and unprincipled mediocrity of the present democratic rule. We lost in 1948 because we deserved nothing more than defeat. Now we have four years to mend our ways, to support new leaders and a new program of an articulate and creative party of enlightened twentieth century conservatism

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cherington Sees Need for Revision In Republican Goals and Strategems | 11/16/1948 | See Source »

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