Word: neutrality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another wave length hits it. The Cash men are hard at work building these talented capsules into a "chemical memory" for computing machines. A transparent film impregnated with photochromic capsules can be written upon in coded dots of color by a hair-thin beam of light. A beam of neutral light that does not affect the dots can read them off in thousandths of a second, or a beam of bleaching wave length can erase them. The capsules can be made so small that the entire Bible could be printed in code on a few sheets of film the size...
...carefully calculating the base area of his new chair, he achieved the stability of four legs without weighting the bottom of the porcelain-enameled aluminum pedestal. The plastic seats are of tulip-shaped organic design, can have richly colored cushions to temper modern simplicity with elegance. The tables, in neutral colors, will be topped with marble or fine wood. Saarinen's new pieces are scheduled to go into mass production at Knoll Associates in September, will sell in the medium-price range...
...secretaries, Richards started off with pro-Western countries: Lebanon, Libya, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan. With apparent success he earnestly tried to clear away any suspicions that the Eisenhower Doctrine harbored hidden motives or involved any infringement of sovereignty. From Pakistan Richards flew to Afghanistan, which had declared itself neutral in the cold war and welcomed aid and technicians from neighboring Russia. At the end of three days in the chilly capital city of Kabul, Richards and Prime Minister Sardar Mohammed Daoud Khan issued a cordial joint communique that, to the State Department's pleased surprise, included Afghan approval...
...help. "They asked us constantly for books, instruction and conferences," said Dom Denis Martin, 49, who has directed the priory since its beginning. In 1954 the monastery began to serve as a meeting place for Moslem and Christian students, for French colons and Moroccan nationalists. The carefully maintained neutral ground of the priory became a bridge between widely separated social customs, religious and political beliefs. In 1955, when the sputtering hill war broke into insurrection, the Benedictines gave refuge to between 200 and 300 students...
Stace also attempted to refute the view that physical sensation is the only kind of experience recognized in empiricism. "Empiricism is neutral on the number of kinds of experience," he declared. The sensationalist theory, he said, ought not to attempt to prove its truth on the basis of empiricism...