Word: traveled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...idea for the hospital grew out of a trip Dubinsky made to Israel last June. In Beersheba he was shocked to learn that the city (pop. 22,000) has no hospital, and that whenever a Beersheban needs hospital care he must travel nearly 50 miles to Rehovot, which is more than a quarter of the way to Dan at the other end of the country. Dubinsky came home determined to do something...
...Christ, he painted a regal, blindfolded Christ figure crowned with thorns; the throng of jeering soldiery appear only as a group of disembodied hands and a loutish head, cap raised in sarcasm, spitting upon Christ. By abstracting all but the essential central image, Fra Angelico makes the eye travel through a curve of space to return endlessly to its starting point-the perfect movement theologians ascribe to the contemplative soul...
While his wife may judge his lectures, Siegfried has judged an interpreted the world to France and France to the world for over 60 years. In any evaluation contends Siegfried, "the greatest danger is to be limited within the boundaries of one's own state. I believe in travel. And travel to Siegfried means that if one is studying India, he must be in India. Applying this view to politics, Siegfried initated the school of electoral geography which demands that one must understand the cultural, economic, social, religious, and consequently psychological forces governing a group before one can honestly understand...
...with more than a lifetime's travel and experience, which can harden the warmest humanist, Siegfried still maintains an optimistic outlook. Opposed to Toynbee, he does not believe in the inevitable clash of the Western and Communist camps. "Technology," asserts Siegfried, "will be the binding force of the future." Democracy and Communism are certainly at appearance incompatible; but technology, claims the professor, is universal, and the leaders of the world must learn to stand together, or they will fall together on this common ground...
Drives who wish to deliver their dates to the front door of any of the dorms on the quadrangle must travel the extra two-tenths of a mile from Shepard to Linnaean Streets and then back to Shepard Street through the quad...