Word: outruns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vatican has long conceded that the popular printing press can outrun any censor's pencil. Since 1900 the church has banned only 255 books, most of them theological works. (Best-known contemporaries on the Index: Philosopher Benedetto Croce, Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre.) Responsibility has been shifted to local bishops and, in the last analysis, to the individual to decide whether a particular book can injure the reader's faith. Explains a Vatican book censor: "People have different spiritual allergies...
...allegiances. But, as in the earlier work, he has drawn attention away from the first-person, with whom he is presumably concerned, by his superior handling of objective narrative. Nevertheless "Asphalt and Desire" remains a stimulating commentary on the tribulations of a girls whose ambitions, nurtured by college life, outrun the realities of her social position...
...daylight raids, have forced U.S. bombers to operate almost entirely at night and singly. "In many respects," Vandenberg admitted, "the MIG can out perform our own F-86-the only airplane in production today capable of challenging the MIG on approximately even terms." Above 25,000 ft., it can outrun and outclimb the F-86, and it can maneuver at supersonic speeds. U.S. pilots claim that with its two 23-mm. and one 37-mm. cannon the MIG is better armed than the F-86 with its eight .50-cal. machine guns...
...near-90-degree temperature must take much of the blame for the messy play. But New Hampshire played in the same heat, and time and again Wildcat attackmen and midfielders were able to elude and outrun would-be defenders...
Seldom before had the challenge to U.S. education been made so sharp and clear: "The knowledge and skills of Modern Civilization have outrun the moral and spiritual resources for their direction and control, in this land of plenty, glutted with wealth, we lack the essential ethical currency for its use, and so we are threatened with cultural bankruptcy." The challenger was Henry P. Van Dusen, president of the faculty of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. Last week, in a tightly reasoned "tract for the times"-God in Education (Scribner; $2)-Van Dusen sounded a call for a fundamental reversal...