Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fold significance," Mr. Pusey said. "It provides substantial funds to reinforce the national effort in basic scientific research and teaching at a time when this is badly needd, and it also recognizes a new principle in educational philanthropy--that sizable funds for capital, as well as the more familiar short-term grants for specific purposes, must be made available to our colleges if they are to continue responding effectively to the demands of our society...
...demobilized soldiers there (the way soldiers had settled in Algeria a century before), but instead returned to North Africa to train paratroop commandos, built up an elite corps which worshiped him as "le Pere des Paras" (the Father of the Paratroopers). Led the French paratroop landings in the short-lived Suez campaign in November 1956, became embittered that a political decision to halt the invasion wiped out his rapid gains...
Some of a Zen pupil's meditation is devoted to koans -short problems without logical solutions, set by the individual's Zen master and designed to wrench the mind free of ordinary thinking. (Sample koan: "A monk asked. 'Who is Buddha?' The master answered, 'Three pounds of flax.' ") Other meditation is devoted to breath control, plus a kind of concentration on nothingness and what Ruth Sasaki describes as "handling one's mind...
...know whether it will proceed with a civil suit to recover some of the $53.6 million in federal funds spent for the vaccine, because it is still not sure the price was too high. It noted that the five companies twice cut prices voluntarily, when the vaccine was in short supply. What the department objects to is that the price cuts were always identical...
...founder-president and board chairman of Zenith Radio Corp., globe-trotting adventurer who persuaded the Navy to use short wave radio by going to the Arctic in 1925 and working a ship 12,000 miles away in New Zealand waters, also flew his own glider, raced outboards, mined gold in Mexico, lived on a yacht on the Chicago River, managed to build his company's sales to over $160 million in 1957; of cancer; in Chicago...