Word: originalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...personal prejudices against him: Marshall's "enmity was an old one"; Harriman resented a heated conference in Tokyo; Acheson "had frequently exhibited petulance" because of MacArthur's interference with the State Department's "socialistic concepts" for Japan. As for Bradley, his enmity "undoubtedly had its origin in my refusal to accept him as my senior ground commander for the invasion of Japan . . . because of his decisions and actions connected with the Battle of the Bulge, where he was the ground commander and which resulted in approximately as many American casualties as were sustained in the entire Southwest...
Servile Birth. If Pluto were a real planet, says Dr. Kuiper, its orbit could not be so eccentric. Best proof, however, of Pluto's humble origin is its slow rotation. Planetary satellites turn only fast enough to present the same face to their planet. The earth's moon does this, rotating once for each turn around its orbit. Dr. Kuiper believes that Pluto used to revolve around Neptune once in about 6½ days, rotating on its own axis in the same period. Now, on its lonely orbit around the sun, it rotates just as fast as when...
Sensational charges have flown across the Atlantic in recent weeks, and refreshingly, their origin has not been political. Sensitive points in Biblical history have relegated some international issues to a new position on the front page, for the moment at least. The Biblical expert temporarily has narrowed his problems to the point where virtually all Christians, agnostics, and atheists feel they have a stake in his next pronouncement...
...conscious that in this year 1956 there still rages the age-old struggle between those who believe that man has his origin and his destiny in God and those who treat man as if he were designed merely to serve a state machine. Hence we deem it useful to declare again certain truths and aims upon which we are united and which, we are persuaded, are supported by all free nations...
...Says Author Catherine Marshall (A Man Called Peter) of her late husband: "I'm not sure that the two lines * were original with Dr. Marshall. I've been trying to track down their origin myself, with no success...