Word: reflection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sources close to the Administration have indicated that the Corporation is far from satisfied with Furry's behavior. The delay in coming to any positive decision may reflect a disagreement in the Corporation whether or not Furry's contract should be terminated...
Again, the selection of the corporation will reflect its view on the world situation as it pertains to the University. The early group which by-passed Mather's ultra-conservatism and ignored his boast to eliminate the devil seems to have been justified by Harvard's successful growth...
...clear and frosty Seattle morning, the vast white bulk of Mount Rainier sometimes seems to be floating low in the southern sky. East and west, the peaks of the Cascade and Olympic ranges run off sharp, cold and glistening along the horizon. Looking at them, Seattle likes to reflect that the frontier still exists: the mountains are still as pitiless-and as alluring-as they were when Henry Yesler's little sawmill was first cutting Douglas fir logs and Indian war canoes still coursed Puget Sound's lonely arms of green tidewater...
...examining the people and the situations in Mr. Morrison's book, then, by judging that these people and the situations do not resemble certain people and situations in real life, to be drawing conclusions about what Mr. Morrison believes. I have no desire to refute these conclusions. They reflect less on Mr. Morrison than on the reviewer, as anyone who knows Mr. Morrison will understand. I should imagine, though, that if Mr. Morrison actually believes that the college newspaper in his own novel "gleefully wants to embarrass rather than inform"--another curious charge, in the making of which your reviewer...
...discoveries which change the structure of society . . . The discovery of nuclear fission has not changed, and will not solve, one underlying problem of the world today . . . Energy and matter, which we now know to be one, are both amoral. Man only is moral or immoral. We have only to reflect that if all the large nations of the world were led today by moral men, instead of immoral ones, [development of] atomic energy . . . would not require such totalitarian legislation as this...