Word: sound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week one of Little Rock's leading citizens broke the silence with a brave try. He was Herbert L. Thomas Sr., 59, public-spirited millionaire founder of the First Pyramid Life Insurance Co. of America, who by Arkansas standards is regarded as a sound moderate in race relations. In 1948, while chairman of the University of Arkansas trustees, Thomas got a phone call warning him that a young Negro war veteran was on his way to apply for admission to the law school. He made the decision to let him in and thereby made Arkansas the first...
...dinner at his official residence; Speaker of Parliament Sartono expressed his gratitude for U.S. economic and technical aid, and Sukarno's chief of staff, Major General Nasution, curtly put a stop to all anti-American parades and demonstrations, ordered everyone, in and out of government, to "respect the sound mutual relationships between all countries and peoples...
...trouble, as Muggeridge saw it, is that "what is really happening is that in Australia, like so many other countries, life gets increasingly like LIFE magazine. The jukeboxes sound and the hamburgers are munched and the glass buildings go up story on story here as elsewhere. The only resistance which can be offered is to be more British than ever...
...closing lines of Chaucer and His Poetry sound strangely like a confession; "...Geoffrey Chaucer, poet, idealist, burgher of London, Commissioner of Dykes and Ditches, who loved his fellow man both good and bad, and found no answer to the puzzle of life but in truth and courage and beauty and belief in God." Kittredge longed to have a chance to live in an age when this sort of life was possible, a desire hinted at in Witchcraft in Old and New England, "We are all specialists now-a-days, I suppose. The good old times of the polymath...
Paul M. Doty, professor of Chemistry, Michael Litt, tutor in Biochemical Sciences, and Julius Marmur, research fellow in Biology and Chemistry, have used sound waves in studying desoxyribose nucleic solid, believed to be "the essential hereditary material of all living organisms, except some viruses...