Word: oed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your May 18 article on the tragic death of Albert Kogler was saddening and inspiring. Unfortunately, the shark became the instrument of death; fortunately, Miss O'Neill's presence of mind turned a tragedy into a successful spiritual venture. It's incidents like this that make life worth living-and heaven worth dying...
...Miss O'Neill's tremendous courage is most commendable, but her bigoted zeal robbed the effort of its meaning. A plague on divine lepidopterists who pursue souls as though they were butterflies...
J.A.C. COVERT O'BRIEN
...nervous aftermath of Russia's Sputnik I, the U.S. Government sent out an S O S to U.S. science. Needed was someone to furnish scientific advice to President Eisenhower and to bridge the gap between the scientific and governmental worlds, which had become so interdependent. Top man to answer the call: Dr. James R. Killian Jr., president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who was named the President's Special...
...Touch of the Poet. The late Eugene O'Neill casting a theatrical illusion of life around the idea that life is illusion...