Word: origin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...similarly wide statistics range showed up in the figures on geographical origin. Eighty-eight percent of the first-year men hailed from the United States. The greatest number came from the mid-Atlantic states, followed by these from the mid-west and the New England states. One hundred and twenty-five students not included in these groupings spread themselves out pretty thinly over seven sections...
Author Scully short-circuits his critics in advance by an inverted appeal to "military security." Flying saucers are real, he states, and are of non-earthly origin; at three flying saucers have been captured in the southwest, along with their scorched crews of extraterrestrial midgets. But all the "scientists" who examined the craft have been silenced, Author Scully says, by threats from the Government, egged on by the Air Force. "You've got to believe me," says Scully in effect, "all informed denials are official lies...
...evolution. Discussion of evolution between scientists and theologians is certainly not forbidden, he wrote, providing that the arguments for & against are fairly stated and "that all are prepared to submit to the judgment of the church . . ." Roman Catholics, however, are overstepping these bounds "when they act as if the origin of the human body from pre-existing and living matter were already completely certain...
Officials at KOTV said that they knew nothing about the film's origin. Telenews officials in New York explained that the film was made by piecing together shots taken in Korea and Japan by cameramen accredited to General MacArthur...
Ground was first broken for the dormitory in December '47. Almost two years of construction had John Farwell Moors' gift to Radcliffe on the verge of completion, when a fire of unknown origin burnt out an entire wing of the first floor last September 16. The girls moved in anyway, while repairs continued through Thanksgiving...