Word: oriented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...representatives of the East, Dr. Pei-Moo Ku, of the M.I.T. aeronautics department, and S. Mukherji of Calcutta, who is studying food technology at the Institute, will add further to the cosmopolitan nature of the gathering in discussing UNESCO's value to the Orient...
Designed as a guidance center and placement bureau for dissociated students, the Student Placement office operates in Weld Hall in an advisory capacity. While they are not always able to find a job for every undergraduate who applied for aid, the office hope to orient the individual through interviews, contacts, and vocational files
Like other Indian leaders, Jinnah denounced the "fratricidal war." But most observers wondered how Jinnah could fail to know what would happen when he called for "direct action." Shortly before the riots broke out, his own news agency (Orient Press) reported that Jinnah, anticipating violence, was sleeping on the floor these nights-to toughen up for a possible sojourn in jail...
...college alumni back for reunion, 31 Catholic missionary priests and bishops arrived last week at a huge grey stone building overlooking the Hudson River near Ossining, N.Y. They represented some 400 Maryknoll Fathers scattered across the world, and they had traveled hard and far - from ten countries in the Orient and Latin America - to be at their society's decennial general chapter...
...know this, Professor Northrop says, is the wisdom of the Orient; and in the great religions of the East, most purely in Buddhism, it has been cultivated through thousands of years as the ultimate reality. In the West, even artists were rarely content to render the sensuous world-the esthetic component-for its own sake until 19th Century Impressionism. Yet if all devotees of the theoretic component-Anglo-Americans in particular-can learn the religious value of direct experience, fanaticism and confusion would cease...