Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While it would seem inappropriate for me to comment in general on the article under Education in the Nov. 8 issue of TIME, for whose veracity and good sense responsibility must as always rest with the Editors, there is one point which will surely arouse in the whole scientific community, and in men of learning everywhere, so profound a revulsion that I cannot pass it in silence. That has to do with the evaluation of Einstein, and of his place in science, which no time, no age, and no frivolity can alter, and of the debt that...
...nothing to say about a communication he had had from Chiang Kaishek. All but about $13 million of the $125 million Congress had appropriated for Chinese military aid had been spent, he said. He saw no point in calling a session of the "do-nothing" 80th Congress to act in the emergency...
Many an industrialist has come to consider him a vastly capable business executive. In his impressive office in Seattle's Teamsters' Hall, he flips through correspondence at split-second speed and barks out advice and orders to every point of his realm by long-distance telephone. He drives to work in a 1947 Cadillac. Although he is paid $25,000 a year, he lives modestly in the same five-room Ravenna District bungalow in which he and his wife started housekeeping...
Forty Million Frenchmen. These were arrogant, offensive and injurious words. The point, however, was that Charles de Gaulle spoke for virtually 40 million Frenchmen. Not since the war had there been such a unanimous upsurge of French resentment-from extreme left to extreme right-against the U.S. and Britain...
...Tempting Opportunity. John Foster Dulles, acting head of the U.S. delegation to the U.N., made a cogent point last week: "The problem of Germany cannot be satisfactorily solved except within the framework of some Western European unity. [The Germans] could safely be given a great peaceful opportunity as a small minority-say 20%-of Western Europe. But as one of several separate independent nations in Europe, the Germans, strategically located in the middle of Europe, have a tempting opportunity to maneuver their way back to a dominant position...