Word: treads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Darwin is a theoretical physicist, but he invades sociological territory where many sociologists fear to tread. He bases his reasoning about man's future on what is sometimes called "social physics": the idea that the behavior of humans in very large numbers can be predicted by the statistical methods that physicists use with large numbers of molecules...
...existence, too, has its adversities. When we saw that Claus could come down chimneys fully laden without even soiling his trousers (his manner of re-ascent has never been completely explored), and that, after visiting sancta where male feet never tread, he could continue his rounds not a whit diminished in vigor, we began to think of him as indomitable, as a sort of chubby, venerable Superman...
...admission standards at Maryland and at Harvard are not alike. Maryland can take a high scorer with a low I.Q. and shunt him off to study physical education. At the College, athletes must tread the same rigorous academic road as their less muscular brethren. No one has ever qualified for entrance, much less a stipend, merely because of a broad back and a strong...
Behind him he left the doctrine that the way to treat Communists is to tread carefully the narrow line between too much severity and too much laxity. In cases of defiance, nonfatal weapons such as tear gas, concussion grenades, rifle butts and shotguns (firing small shot) were to be preferred to bullets. Prisoners should be allowed to celebrate Red holidays if they were orderly and obeyed the rules...
...have always been a naturalist feeling that the clouds are preeminently and typically a part of nature: but in the book I do not tread them at all, but keep to the earth and its arts...