Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years since the Communist Manifesto, had Marx's mush-mouthed dialectics, distilled from northern academic mists, come so far in a land where struggle had always been so real and urgent that it needed no theoretical encouragement? How did Communist influence manage to reach so deeply into the heart of the civilization it sought to destroy? Part of the answer lay in the results of 20 years of Fascism; part of it lay in the extraordinary political genius of Palmiro Togliatti, the most successful Communist outside Russia, perhaps the greatest Communist since Lenin. And part...
Plenty of Elbow Grease. The key to whether the U.S. will reach these goals is productivity-the combination of labor efficiency and technological improvement. A startling example of what improvement in productivity means: national output in 1940 was 27 times larger than in 1850, though the labor force was only nine times greater and worked only 43 hours a week instead of 70. If such productivity continues its average rate of growth since 1850 (18% a decade), the U.S. will easily meet the estimated demands for 1950-60. If it grows at the rate which prevailed in. the last...
...Saint Thomas was an existentialist in a genuine sense, though very different from today's existentialists. ... [He] gave prudence and will their important and proper place. Modern existentialists have tried to reach conclusions without prudence and without will. They have ignored the spirituality behind the sublime cry of Job; they have remembered only the dung heap whereon Job lay. If we will see true existentialism, we must look for it in Saint Thomas...
...Castle. But when he arrives, at night, in winter, he is rudely ordered off the premises. The Castle authorities (a vast, apparently shiftless bureaucracy) first deny that K. has a job there at all, then grudgingly concede that he may have one. K. tries desperately to reach the Castle by telephone. "The receiver gave out a buzz of a kind that K. had never heard on a telephone. It was like the hum of countless children's voices-but yet not a hum, the echo rather of voices singing at an infinite distance-blended by sheer impossibility into...
...quipsters' "Your programs aren't so hot any more," but soon found that the signal still flew out to Watertown. After a brief experiment with House drain pipes, they hit on the present scheme of piping programs through the University's electric lighting system. At present, extension cords reach only into the seven Houses, but only funds and wire are lacking for Yard coverage. Technical Director T. Michael Sanders '48 expects to have the project completed some time next fall...