Word: sphere
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Heaven and Earth ends with an act of expiation. Don Ardito persuades a German officer to execute him for acts committed by the partisans. In this way, Author Coccioli attempts to bring all nations, creeds and parties within the sphere of his theme-to throw Don Ardito's girdle of love around the earth...
Soaring. Though he shies away from any attempt to define precisely and positively what mind is, Sir Russell has no hesitation in saying that it is something more than grey matter: "Though it is linked through the brain to the world of matter, it moves in its own sphere as though it could soar above the physical...
...excitement was over, the only thing left would be a "neutron-star": a ball of peculiar matter made largely or entirely of neutrons. A cubic inch of this strange stuff would weigh 18 million tons, and a mass the size of the sun could be packed into a sphere less than 100 miles in diameter...
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer urged the upper house (Bundesrat) of Germany's parliament to hasten the job by considering only those aspects of the treaties that lie within what he said was its proper sphere, i.e., protection of states' rights within the new Federal Republic. A resentful Bundesrat, after a mere 15 minutes' debate, voted unanimously to ignore his appeal, and to debate the entire treaties, paragraph by paragraph. Moreover, it declared, it could not possibly discuss either treaty until the Federal Constitutional Court hands down a decision on the constitutionality of German rearmament-a decision not expected...
...fame--and notoriety--that Conant has gained in non-Cambridge circles has served to a great extent to place him in a sphere far outside that of the ordinary undergraduate. To the average Harvard student Conant at times appears little more than a glossy figure-head who journeys around the country gaining prestige while the University is run by some people over in University Hall. Faculty members smile gently at this notion, they realize that Conant, as he should be, is by far the most influential figure in the administration of the University, and that his influence stems not only...