Word: reasonably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hull and the submerged half of a whirling propeller, skip along the water like a flat stone thrown from shore, tossing spray with the sting of buckshot. No one knows how fast the top boats will go because no one has ever had them wide open, and for good reason: at speeds around 180 m.p.h., the slightest swell can send them hurtling into the air. Last week Seattle's Lake Washington reverberated like a fighter strip as the nation's 14 fastest hydroplanes roared off in the top race of the year: the Gold...
...want to be with ordinary people, share their lives and be one of them," says tough, square-jawed John Strong, 43. For years he has lived in slums, worked in factories. To most Church of England clerics he is an odd fellow, "honest but peculiar." Reason: Worker Strong is also a fulltime minister...
...Daniel, who appointed him to a top-level committee studying the state's educational needs. This spring, of dozens of appropriations urged by the committee, the only one passed by the frugal state legislature was a $1,300,000 bill to set up Tijerina-style schools throughout Texas. Reason: hundreds of five-year-olds have now had the Tijerina treatment, and less than 5% have flunked the first grade...
...Arkansas governed by a nervous demagogue. Little Rock's moderate school board prepared to face the consequences of obeying the integration laws of the land. With canny suddenness, the board ordered high schools opened this week-nearly a month ahead of schedule. Announced reason: the 2,500 students, including six Negroes newly assigned to Central and Hall high schools (compared to the embattled nine at Central in 1957), will need judicious counseling before classes start...
Idealism for Schiller, Atkins emphasized, did not mean the offering of a Utopia, but rather a spirit of freedom which harmoniously combined feeling and reason. Nor was there any "blind romantic idealism" in the poet's system, for Schiller felt that pure freedom existed only in the realm of dreams and that practical freedom was limited by moral...