Word: paule
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week began Pierre Pflimlin, member of the M.R.P. Catholic center party and a good European, had tried to form a Cabinet devoted to lacing France into a "financial corset" of austerity. Conservative Independent Paul Reynaud told him: "Your program is tragically insufficient. I would even say it is not serious." The Conservatives would just as soon delay until a new election was forced, scenting that they might pick up some of the 37 seats now held by the discredited Poujadists. The Socialists, whose votes Pflimlin next solicited, were not anxious to face their electoral supporters at this month...
Ever since Boer President "Oom Paul" Kruger first set them up on the slopes of the Wolkberg in 1883, the Mamatola tribesmen of the northeastern Transvaal have cultivated their sunny and windswept land in peace and contentment. Last week a convoy of 23 trucks dispatched by South Africa's Native Affairs Minister Hendrik Verwoerd rumbled up the mountain to carry the 1,200-odd Mamatola off to a new home, Metz, in a dank and inhospitable valley 30 miles to the east. The stated reason: the Mamatola's outmoded farming methods were ruining the land...
...spent more than a moment on the border of space. That man is wiry, redheaded Air Force Captain Joe W. Kittinger, 28, whose balloon of bubble-thin plastic last week rose to a record-breaking 96,000 ft. (TIME, June 10). His flight was planned by Lieut. Colonel John Paul Stapp, head of the Air Force's Aero Medical Laboratory, as an approach to the bristling problem of staying alive in space...
This translation will be more radical than a Revised Standard Version or a competent sermon explaining Scripture. It will have to be the translation which Paul accomplished when he gave Jesus to the non-Judaic world, or the transla tion accomplished by Aquinas, who incorporated the systematic requirements of medieval metaphysics. It will, perhaps, be a translation as radical as that given Judaism by Jesus, or the Veda by Gotama...
...Brilliant students can be ruined by a police-type exam given in great detail because of the grading system"--Paul H. Buck, former dean of the Faculty...