Word: partiality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sight in with shorter-range missiles on the Soviet Union while the U.S. still lies beyond the reach of any but intercontinental missiles. Last week, in their first major move of the 1957 London U.N. Subcommittee on Disarmament talks, the Russians put forward a package that appeared to feature partial acceptance of the Eisenhower open-skies idea...
...order which man achieves in the study of himself through the coming years will be a partial order," J. Robert Oppenheimer '26 told a capacity Sanders Theatre audience in his final William James Lecture last Friday. The atomic physicist received a standing ovation at the conclusion of his talk...
This prediction led Oppenheimer to state that man, in studying himself, will be forced to accept a "partial order," realizing that the very "character of the knower determines what, how, and how much he knows...
...process of striving to learn, though incompletely, man will be faced, in studying himself, with the mutual exclusiveness which pervades modern atomic theory, and this will lead to the acceptance of a partial order, inherent in the knowledge of ourselves...
...closed by saying that we all have a dual obligation--"faithfulness in the things which are our arts and sciences, and a duty to others to learn as much as we can." These are the duties which lead toward a partial order...