Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they appeared to have been incarcerated up there for 24 months. Brinkley's celebrated eye for the wry seemed a little bloodshot. "Now let's check the RCA 501 computer, which has just had its 9:30 feeding," he wried. It was a sort of amusing remark-but somehow not as fresh as it was two years ago, when he said: "Our 501 has just had its 2 o'clock feeding of warm election statistics...
...could not help noticing your remark about the common cold. It does seem odd that so little has been done about this everyday but exasperating ailment...
NEWMAN'S approach to Eddington is not an extreme example of his distressingly glib judgments in Science Sensibility. The point is typified by a remark in one of the earlier essays: "I agree entirely with Bertrand that intellectually Pythagoras was one of the most important men that ever lived, both when he was wise and when he was unwise.'" We're by now with the notion that and unwisdom generate scientific progress. But it is one thing to say that one scientist's mistakes send another in the right direction, and quite another that unwisdom in a wayward scientist presents...
...June 18, 1708, at a Philadelphia banquet for John Marshall, one of the three Commissioners in what became known as the XYZ affair, Harper proposed the 13th toast of the evening: "Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute." The remark was later credited to Pinckney and although he never denied it publicly, he did so privately several times...
SENIOR Editor William Forbis, who edited this week's cover story on the headmaster at Andover, was heard to remark recently that editors have little trouble warding off all kinds of discreet pressure from ''big business and big politics,'' but he found it harder to fend off people-including a number of his own colleagues-who, without the least subtlety, were eager to get their own prep school mentioned in the cover story. A good many of their schools turn up in the story, and would have anyway...