Word: mine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ambitions or plans for the future. "You can't plan politics. You can let only fate control your future. But whatever I do, I'll always remember the saying of a professor of mine: 'To hold public office is a noble ambition and should be nobly expressed...
Last summer's expedition, financed by the National Geographic Society, carried in a planeload of equipment and set out to find the evidence. Attempts to find fragments of nickel-iron from the meteorite were unsuccessful. The expedition's mine detectors (lent by the U.S. Army) were scarcely more useful: they gave too many indications, squealed excitedly whenever they were brought near an ordinary granite boulder. Apparently, said Geologist Meen, the granite of the region contains enough magnetic iron ore to drive a mine detector wild...
...teach literature. I teach the consecrated classics but I am attentive also to the masters of modern literature and if I were not so my students would have waked me up to them. About five years ago a professor who was a friend of mine in a university far from here once said to me, "You know, when a student in my classes has written a brilliant paper on the 'Scarlet Letter' or on 'Tom Jones,' I invite him into my office to compliment him and to make his acquaintance, and we talk for a while...
...that he had an anthropologist tell him that $4 billion men and women were living or had lived and died, men and women above the level of the aborigine. He put it in his journal and his reflection follows: "I carried that to an anthropologist friend of mine and he said. 'How childish! How childish! Three and four times that many fully responsible human beings have lived and died...
...that he had an anthropologist tell him that $4 billion men and women were living or had lived and died, men and women above the level of the aborigine. He put it in his journal and his reflection follows: "I carried that to an anthropologist friend of mine and he said. 'How childish! How childish! Three and four times that many fully responsible human beings have lived and died...