Word: might
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seen it rising above squat Moscow, Napoleon might have paused. For the 32-story Palace of Science, showpiece of Moscow State University, catches the visitor's eye* as the Eiffel Tower does in Paris. A relic of Stalin's appetite for Victorian skyscrapers, it comes off as just what he intended: the biggest wedding cake in the store window of Soviet education. Next year five U.S. professors will discover what such education means. Last week Columbia University began looking for volunteers to teach at Moscow University in the first formal professorial exchange between the two countries. What...
...have done some long-range good. Along with others. Chamber of Commerce's Schmidt pointed out that the postwar economy has averaged a recession, or at least a leveling in growth, every 30 months. But the steel strike was itself a recession; therefore, the normal setback that might have been expected has been delayed, and business should be good well into...
...Four Unreasons. A Christian will object that the doctrine is in Christianity because its founder, no Stoic, put it there. But many of Russell's judgments might be echoed by the Christian faith, notably his disdain for the existentialism of France's Jean Paul Sartre. "Poetic vagueness and linguistic extravagance," sputters Russell, who sees freedom "in a knowledge of how nature works [whereas] the existentialist finds it in an indulgence of his moods." Russell may or may not be pleased to find the same thought expressed in the Bible...
...month liberation of the Philippines. With the backbone of its naval power snapped in the historic Battle of Leyte Gulf (TIME, Nov. 10, 1958), the Japanese turned full power on their last desperate tactic, the suicidal kamikaze corps. If books had theme songs, the kamikaze Song of the Warrior might serve as an apt motif for this 13th volume of Samuel Eliot Morison's massive U.S. naval history of World...
...Japanese naval power was bottled up in its own home waters. After months and years of island hopping, soldiers and sailors alike felt the elation of the coming kill. Yet South Pacific veterans also felt twinges of peculiar melancholy, which Historian Morison subtly senses and records: "You might be sick of the magnificent scenery, hate the steaming climate, and loathe the squawks of the white cockatoos; but something of you had been left behind, irrevocably; and you hated to think of the jungle taking over roads and airstrips ... As Virgil makes Aeneas deplore the city he had left and lost...