Word: retrospective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...public, and a Congress, which was nursed on tales of Columbus, Edison, the Wright brothers, etc., and the mentality of the scientists themselves, who can hardly lose sight of the enormous preponderance of unpublicized pipe-dreams. Since all the more romantic advance of science are found in retrospect to have been impeded by forces of malice and darkness, it is perhaps not surprising to see some present-day pessimists accused as traitors or, at best, as imbeciles. One consequence may well be a trend towards blind sponsorship of space-trips and death ray machines on the part of job-conscious...
...Father's Right. In the end, even the British military realize that Gadein is not the stuff that armies are made of. Released and discharged, he makes the long trek from Cairo to his native village in Kenya. In retrospect, army life becomes just a great laugh. In the native villages, he makes a hit by simply imitating the gaits of his British officers. And, home at last, his army pay buys him a bride and a great feast. For once even his father approves of him, and allows Gadein to sit on his right. And when...
...additional undergraduates. The veterans had no time to meet and discuss with other students and tutors. Tutorial, abolished during the war, could not withstand post-war indifference and crowding, and gave way to an advisory system. In view of Lowell's motives in founding the Houses, the move in retrospect seems almost unaccountable...
...Colonel McCormick falter. When General Zwicker faced the Senator's invective, army veteran McCormick reflected and said: "It seems to us that Senator McCarthy will better serve his cause if he learns to distinguish the role of investigator from the role of avenging angel." But after two weeks of retrospect, the Tribune eased back into the Senator's fold: "Senator McCarthy has been trying to clean out some of the subversive characters that the New Deal planted in the Government services. If he has made a few mistakes, that is only human. There is no doubt that he wishes...
...told by one of the losers, of the great air battles that were fought over Western Europe in World War II. As a professional flyer's scrapbook, it makes gripping, convincing reading, but it is spoiled, perhaps inevitably, by a scum of Nazi notions that nine years' retrospect and the detergent efforts of a British editor have signally failed to remove. Introducing Knoke, Lieut. General (ret.) Elwood R. ("Pete") Quesada, wartime chief of the Ninth Tactical Air Command in Europe, says: "He was a fine airman, very brave, and an excellent pilot. I would have liked having...