Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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INNER-DIRECTION was the answer. The elders implanted early a sense of direction toward lifelong goals. Tradition still helps to guide the inner-directed man by helping him select the goals and the general principles of action by which he is to reach them, rather than by leading him with strict supervision through every step of the way. Where tradition-direction puts him on a well-worn path, inner-direction gives him a gyroscope by which, in all situations, he is expected to find the way toward his goal. Inner-direction appears in Catholic as well as Protestant countries...
...will soon reach a point in the atomic race with Russia when, unless we become considerably more alert than we are, the supremacy in air-atomic power which to date has been ours will shift from us to Russia. We should assume for the purpose of our national policies and planning that the Russians will reach this point during the year 1956. We need new national policies for what I would call Phase II of the Atomic Age-the time when the Russians will have enough fission and hydrogen bombs, and the planes and missiles to make a sneak attack...
...whipped a long forward pass downfield. On the Sooner 43, End Max Boydston took the ball easily over his shoulder. A diving defensive back just missed his heels. Running as if he had eyes in the back of his head, Boydston snaked away from the only other Bear in reach and completed an 87-yd. touchdown...
...facts they are reasonably sure of: the universe "is made of a fairly uniform mixture of chemical elements; 95% is hydrogen, nearly 5% is helium formed in stars. The small remainder is the heavier elements from lithium to uranium. The elements get scarcer as they get heavier until they reach the atomic weight of 100; after that, their abundance is about the same...
When victory approached, Peale settled in Philadelphia and opened a museum of his Revolutionary portraits. The resulting portrait commissions were just enough to support his greatest joy-a bustling, boisterous family. Of his ten children to reach maturity, most dabbled in art, two became professional painters: Raphaelle and Rembrandt. Raphaelle was by far the most talented, brought still-life painting to a pitch seldom equaled before or since, and died of drink...