Word: presentational
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moon's key to the future offers possibilities for mankind far beyond military protection. In the scientific sense, Singer writes, "man can only approach the future rationally in terms of the present and the past. Even so, it is well to recognize that progress is not always attained in terms of today's conventions and reasonings. Man first tried to fly by flapping birdlike wings, but modern aircraft do not use this principle; nor do modern railroad cars bear much resemblance to the horse-drawn carriage prototypes. There must be a somewhat visionary or even fanciful approach...
...Although the polls show that a Republican, Vice President Richard Nixon, is running miles ahead of any other presidential candidate of either party as the present choice of the voters, the Republicans are just as emphatically the minority party in the U.S. In a sampled nose count last week, the Gallup poll found that 56.2 million voters prefer the Democratic Party, 37.6 million like the Republicans, and 8.5 million are still undecided...
Other surprises have marked this 84-years-old series--for instance the unprecedented 54-0 rout perpetrated by Yale in 1957. This element of the unexpected, always present in a game whose outcome rests traditionally on the uncertain factor of morale, has made the Harvard-Yale rivalry the greatest in college football...
Refusing to comment on the effectiveness of the present porter system, Burke stated that his office would readily comply with any decision of the Masters. He said also that students would undoubtedly benefit from "learning to keep their own nests clean...
...tackled a large and ambitious play and does it well. John Beck's direction has been carefully planned and successfully executed. Tiger at the Gates is an amusing, yet thought provoking, work and its present production highly enjoyable and rewarding...