Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...United Party toughs, while only seven of the C.P.P.'s boys got into trouble. And two C.P.P. men-the only martyrs of the whole election-lay dead, the victims of a U.P. mob. After that, Nkrumah's candidate was a shoo-in, and the P.M. himself could turn to other things. At week's end he turned up before the steering committee of the All-African People's Congress in Accra to deliver a stirring anticolonial address. Its theme: no African will ever be really free so long as other Africans...
Lunik III rounded the moon and this week started its slow turn back toward the earth, just as the Russians said it would...
John Dewey continues to say that we should go "back (not to traditional Platonism, but) to the dramatic, restless, co-operatively inquiring Plato of the dialogues... whose highest flight of Metaphysics always terminated with a social and practical turn.... Upon the whole the forces that have influenced me have come from persons and from situations more than from books." He expressed the faith that the philosophy of the future would be characterized by unification or integration of thought without artificiality...
...N3195N cleared for immediate takeoff," radioed the control tower. In the Harvard Flying Club's Cessna 120, N. De J. Portocarrero '61 taxied on to the runway and pulled back the throttle. Seconds later, the two-seater left Bedford Airport, making a wide turn toward Cambridge. As the plane droned over route 128 and the lakes and farms of Lexington, Portocarrero explained the instrument panel: airspeed--100 m.p.m., direction--south-east, altitude--1500 feet...
...might question initially whether a college in which religion has been relegated strictly to the individual can turn around and claim for itself the field of moral philosophy--or whether it should content itself with the area of intellectual inquiry. This objection cannot be answered absolutely, unless a college education be defined broadly enough to include things other than merely academic matters. As Raphael Demos, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity has observed, "The distinction between right and wrong is surely no less important than that between true and false." Professor Demos also points out that...