Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...synthesis of such a diversity of subjective and objective elements, however, is only partially successful. The rhythm and consistently gaunt imagery give the poem a great amount of tonal unity, but there is little development toward the identity of the artist with his environment that the last stanza professes him to have achieved. Granted the painter may have felt this identity, but it is still up to the poem to help the reader partake of the process. But it's too static and remains as a whole nebulous and gray. Despite its other virtues, there is little light and color...
...satellite effort may cause other sciences to be neglected, Du Pont President Crawford H. Greenewalt warned that "hasty expedients may, while promising immediate advantage, weaken rather than advance our long-range scientific endeavor." Said he: "I sincerely hope that no scientific chauvinism will lead us down ill-considered pathways toward goals which may be more glitter than gold...
...Toward the Acid Test. The doctors concluded that by this time Congrave's reasoning ability had recovered far beyond his ability to articulate. This might be dangerously frustrating, but so far the patient has shown no sign of it beyond scratching his head when puzzling out how to express something which he obviously had formulated clearly in his mind...
Each day, they reported later, the toughest hours to get through were in the dark of the morning toward 6 o'clock. About 9 a.m., when they would be most wide awake on a normal routine, they snapped out of their stupor to some extent. Most of the students went through spells of laughing for no reason. One was "happy and silly" for 45 hours, then became so depressed that the slightest irritation provoked violent argument. They forgot each other's names or substituted one name for another...
...this week took another step down the road toward generating electricity from atomic fuels at a cost competitive with hydroelectric power or coal power. The Argonne National Laboratory at Lemont, Ill. announced its experimental boiling water reactor, put in operation a year ago and originally designed for an output of 20,000 kw. of heat had been safely operated at a level of 50,000 kw., cutting the estimated cost of electricity per kw-h from 5.2? to 3.2?. while that price is still too high to be of commercial use, Argonne estimates that four boiling water reactors like...