Word: piercee
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The term "pragmatism" derives from the Greek word for action. In 1878, Charles Sanders Pierce introduced the word into philosophy in an article entitled "How to make Our Ideas Clear." Peirce argued that beliefs are really rules for acting and that the meaning of having a belief can only be...
A century ago, the U.S. Government established a main office of its Coast and Geodetic Survey in Boston in order to be close to Benjamin Pierce, professor of Mathematics in Harvard University and the leading American mathematician of his time.
The Huskies have some hitters of their own who can rattle the nearby fences. Left fielder Frank Schettino hits with power and is a superb fielder. Short-stop John Pierce led the team's hitters last year and is off to another good start.
Crown Prince Namgyal of Sikkim [March 29] is an amateur radio operator using the call letters AC3PT. To the thousands of us "hams" who have talked to him or have heard him on the air, reading about his wedding to Hope Cooke was indeed a thrill. SUE PIERCE
In his various Calligraphs, Ferber carried the experiment further. In one the action may take place in a kind of cage; in another, the forms bounce back and forth against a wall and a roof and seem never to come to rest. These sculptures do not rise up from the...