Word: shots
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...last shot of World War I had scarcely been fired when Harvard alumni began a campaign to build some suitable memorial to the University's war dead. There was near unanimity on the need for such a gesture. To Americans it had been a war mainly of ideals, and its victims were sacrifices in a noble cause. Some sort of memorial was clearly called for, but at first everyone had his own idea of what form it should take...
...position to judge either the theological or historical fitness of the decision that Memorial Church is a place of worship where only Christian services may be held. As far as I am able to judge, both the theological case and the historical one are sufficiently shot through with ambiguity so that a decision might as easily have been made to treat this religious memorial to our war dead as a universal place of worship. One can find, moreover, legitimate and esthetic justification for the view that a Christian place of worship be just that--or for a view based...
...funny-money Social Credit movement, which held 19 seats in the old House of Commons. Surveying the wreckage of his party's national ambitions, Alberta's Social Credit Premier Ernest Manning offered a wry jest: "The voters have put all their eggs in one basket and shot...
...shot away from the earth at escape velocity (25,000 m.p.h.), a cheap 8.7-lb. corner reflector can be followed far into space. It can be watched by radar, says the NACA, as it circles the moon and heads back to earth. Its behavior will check the calculations of astronavigators and explore the spaceways for vehicles of the future, carrying instruments...
...field of vision (146° wide, 55° high) almost equal to that of the human eye (160°-60°) and, at the renovated Roxy Theater in Manhattan this week, got tucked in on a canvas 100 ft. long, 40 ft. high. Like Cinerama, Cinemiracle is shot through three cameras, translated through three projectors, but avoids its older brother's sideline distortions. Cinemiracle may not be a miracle, but it offers a cinespectacle...