Word: older
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...estimates of strontium yield from a given fission energy are low by a factor of four, due to the use of older figures; recent, more accurate figures were not available at the time the report was issued...
...scene of a quiet but intense battle for the loyalties of its 2,500,000 Chinese inhabitants. Each year the measure of the battle is in the num ber of flags that fly on Red China's National Day on Oct. 1 and Nationalist China's older "Double Tenth"* anniver sary on Oct. 10. As the Double Tenth dawned last week, the white-starred banner of the Republic of China seemed to have peacefully triumphed over the five-starred Red flag. Then an impetuous official ripped down two Nationalist flags in a strongly anti-Communist refugee project...
...open your eye because you won't be able to see, Johnny. You won't ever be able to see again, but you'll be all right." "O.K." said Johnny. Then he went out to play on his tricycle, guided by his older brother. At home, he felt his way around, found his way to the refrigerator for some mayonnaise to spread on bread. "I'll get it." he said when his mother offered to help. "You just tell me when I'm touching it." Said his mother: "I hope he understands. I believe...
With his set of moral values destroyed, man then turned to an ad hoc moral standard which is in vogue today. Contemporary man must therefore regain the older type of comprehensive morals without the other aspects of traditional religion which are no longer workable in American society, concluded Handlin...
...Older than recorded history, the religion of the Vedas and Upanishads has met religion after religion and welcomed them all. Buddhism sprang from its loins; Zoroastrians found a haven of tolerance in India; Christianity planted a seed there in apostolic times, perhaps with the coming of Doubting Thomas himself.* Even the first fierce followers of Allah's Prophet Mohammed were allowed to build their mosques and say their prayers in peace among the Hindus...