Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...often called upon to undertake special projects. The familiar map of Harvard, for instance, is his work. Last year he did a relief globe of the Earth, six feet in diameter, which he carved from plaster of Paris. It is now being commercially manufactured from rubber. His own particular interest is the "land-type" map, a colored version of the landform. The colors, however, do not represent different heights--they indicate the vegetation and cultivation of the land. This comes closest, he says, to a "true portrait of the face of Mother Earth...
...result was of particular interest to Researcher Welch...
...often gratifying to sit and watch a group of performers who are enjoying themselves, even if their playing and singing is sometimes ragged. The Bach Society Chorus, conducted by Stephen Addiss, contains few exceptional voices, and this is a particular drawback in a small ensemble, where the individual voice quality is quite apparent. But any lack of technique is almost compensated for, by the enthusiam generated when people gather primarily to have a good time singing...
...markets. When they establish that a family has watched TV that day or the day before, they jog the viewer's memory by displaying a program schedule for the period and asking what was seen before or after normal household activity, e.g., shopping, dishwashing, linked to particular hours of the day. Every tenth interview is checked by a letter to the family from Pulse. For the average half-hour nighttime network program, Pulse gets its rating from some 7,000 interviews, puts together a national rating from its local surveys. Of the raters Pulse claims the largest sampling...
...would be close to the original intention of the U.N. Charter, which provided for a Military Staff Committee under the Security Council which could, at any time, organize troops to carry out decisions of the Council. Big Power disagreements and the absence of disarmament prevented the formation of that particular Committee, but recent events, both in the Middle East and in Hungary, indicate that a permanent U.N. force is perhaps needed as much before disarmament as it would be after. One cannot help speculating what might have happened in Hungary had a U.N. Police Force, composed mainly of Asian neutrals...