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Word: mr (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were very privileged to leave on the moon a plaque endorsed by you, Mr. President, saying: "For all of mankind." Perhaps in the third millennium a wayward stranger will read that plaque at Tranquillity Base. We'll let history mark that this was the age in which that became a fact. I was struck this morning in New York by a proudly waved but uncarefully scribbled sign. It said: "Through you, we touched the moon." It was our privilege today to touch America. I suspect that perhaps the most warm, genuine feeling that all of us could receive came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: HOMAGE TO THE MEN FROM THE MOON | 8/22/1969 | See Source »

...have, I must confess, serious doubts about the efficacy--or even the integrity--of the "classic" exam-period editorial, "Beating the System." I almost suspect this "Donald Cars--well'50" of being rather one of Us--The Bad Guys--than of You. If your readers have been following Mr. Cars well's advice for the last eleven years, then your readers have been going down the tubes. It is time to disillusion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Or, Get Facts, 'Any Facts' | 8/19/1969 | See Source »

...Think, Mr. Carswell (wherever you are) think, all of you: imagine the situation of your grader. (Unless, of double differential-CH3 C6 H2 (NO2) set. These people are mere cogs, automata; they simply feel to make sure you've punched the right holes. As they cannot thinks, they cannot be impressed; the are clods. The only way to beat their system is to cheat). In the humanities and social sciences, it is well to remember, there is a man (occasionally a woman), a humane type filling out your picture postcards. What does he want to read? How, in a word...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Or, Get Facts, 'Any Facts' | 8/19/1969 | See Source »

...with circles over the i's.) Not, I remain you, necessarily to people who have locked themselves in Lamont for a week and seminared and outlined and typed their notes and argued out all of Leibniz's fallacies with their mothers. They often get A's too, but, as Mr. Carswell sagely observed, this takes too long. There are other ways...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Or, Get Facts, 'Any Facts' | 8/19/1969 | See Source »

...London two weeks ago, a high-court trial ended with a landmark settlement against the Distillers Co., which made Distaval under license from its West German originators. It awarded David $49,920 and Richard $30,720. (At the request of Mr. Justice Hinchcliffe, the family surnames were not published.) Hinchcliffe explained that he had tried the cases together because David represented the most serious bracket of deformities and Richard the middle range...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drugs: Fallout from Thalidomide | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

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