Word: suggests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surface of the sun is approximately 6,000 degrees centigrade," Menzel and Goldberg pointed out, "But the condition of atoms in the sun's outer atmosphere indicates that temperatures of over 1,000,000 degrees centigrade prevail at some distance from the sun. This and other indirect evidence suggest that there is an unexpectedly large quantity of ultra-violet radiation from the sun's surface...
...Furthermore, the dstinctive, approach outlined for GE courses from the start has been upheld: that brief coverage of numerous topics within a subject must give way to more thorough treatment of strategic considerations. Here the object is to illustrate the nature of the problems in a particular field and suggest possible methods of solution through the presentation of carefully-selected segments of knowledge. In vindicating the heart-matter of the General Education proposals the response of the first-year men points in the final analysis to successful resolution of current mechanical quandaries. The skeptics and ill-wishers will be lonely...
...Greek-Turkish Aid and the foreign relief bills passed by both houses of Congress, Massachusetts' Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., grandson of a famed statesman, an artillery officer in World War II, and a junior member of the Foreign Relations Committee, rose in the Senate last week to suggest a realistic way of using the funds. Excerpts from his speech...
...reader still remain unhorrified? With dry, deadpan irony, Rosebury & Kabat-who know as well as anyone, and better than most, that there are "portentous moral issues involved"-even suggest a design for a convenient-size bottle of death: "Culture preparations of bacteria or viruses . . . might be dispensed, either in liquid suspension or in dry form, in thin-walled glass ampules. . . . To insure the breaking on contact with water, a gas-generating element like those used in fire extinguishers might be included...
...Harvard scene, the 1910 graduate found, gives an immediate and striking impression of tenseness and worry. "Nobody ever seems to stop working. It was certainly not like that in my day," he said, suggesting that students now are representatives of a new "Worried Generation." "I don't mean to suggest," he smiled, "that there isn't plenty to worry about...