Word: suggest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suggest that he proceed to abolish geometry (invented by a pagan), algebra (influenced by Mohammedans) . . . music (its appeal is sensual), art (unattractive to red-blooded hemen) and . . . that when spring comes-if it ever does to Olivet, Mich.-he keep his students all indoors lest it freshen their blood and create unorthodox notions...
...expiate this sense of sin Oppenheimer threw himself into the campaign for international atomic regulation. He was appointed to a seven-man board (chairman: David Lilienthal) to suggest U.S. policy on the future of atomic energy. Chalk in hand, Oppie lectured to the nonscientific members for ten days on atomic energy, patiently repeating the lesson whenever some member got lost. Oppenheimer was responsible for much of the writing, and many of the ideas, in the resulting 34,000-word Acheson-Lilienthal Report (TIME, April 8, 1946), which called for an international atomic development authority. Says Lilienthal: "Robert is the only...
...seems astonishing to us that the president of the country's leading university, devoted ostensibly to the propagation of knowledge, should suggest turning over the young men of our country to an institution which is the very antitheses of learning and free thought. One can hardly help concluding from the statement that his program that Conant would have us spend even more than the present 15 to 20 billion dollars yearly for militarization, and hence loss of nothing for government aid to education...
...percent of the votes while Harry Truman got only 8 percent. Thomas E. Dewey got 72 percent. And at Wellesley, to round out the castern collegiate poll situation, Dewey got about 600, Truman about 40, and Wallace between 30 and 40. In view of this, I would like to suggest, on behalf of both the people of the United States and the girls of Wellesley, that Governor Dewey would be wise to make a last-minute shift and run for President of Wellesley--a position which just happens to be wide open. He would be more popular there than...
...fact that its location would tend to make it a daily reminder of the debt owed to the dead by succeeding generations. As a utility an activities center might not rate as high a priority as would some other urgent needs of the University. Moreover, emphasis on utility might suggest that the emotions inspired by the desire for a memorial were being exploited as the easiest way of raising money...