Word: particularity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...affect gravely military planning throughout the NATO nations. This move was motivated principally by economic difficulties compounded by the Suez invasion. In an attempt to lower taxes, the government plans to halve military manpower by 1960 and eliminate the draft by withdrawing troops from Libya, Korea, and Germany in particular. The government views its present program, undertaken in 1950 under the pressure of Korean conflict, as ill-adapted to the present need for long-range planning. Prime Minister Macmillan argues, further, that an economically burdened England could never be the defensive force the free world expects; hence he asserts "more...
...opening remarks, Oppenheimer said that "there is a great deal to know, and we don't know very much of it." Later, he put particular emphasis on the nature of knowledge, and the way in which, by its very nature, it limits our ultimate comprehension of anything we wish to know...
...Knowledge involves the knower in a completely decisive way," he told his audience. Man, by choosing a particular path to some kind of knowledge, immediately excludes certain parts of the very knowledge for which he is seeking...
...attempting to catch up on developments in various areas of learning, one may be tempted to pick up a survey of some field, but even here there is the problem of word meanings. For a word which once had one connotation may have acquired--in the context of a particular field or with the passing of time--an entirely different shading. Oppenheimer later defined objectivity as a qualitative observation which measures the degree to which people can talk about something and be sure of the words they are using...
...trip cannot be counted as a success. But this is true probably more because three games were cancelled than because three games were lost. The team clearly needed practice, as frequent errors hurt pitching that was better than expected. The catching, in particular, needs work...