Word: twentieths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lichtenberg Reader, Lichtenberg was a master of the aphorism. Although he produced nothing else in the realm of great literature, his amazing skill at combining a sharp wit with deep insights was enough to endear him to his great contemporaries, Goethe and Kant. Later in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Lichtenberg was even more valued by such greats as Nietzsche and Kierkegaard who saw in him evidence of their own existential approach to philosophy. That Lichtenberg was in many ways ahead of his time is true, for in a time of rampant Enlightenment rationalism Lichtenberg retained a wry skepticism quite...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). The concluding half of Poland on a Tightrope, filmed on the scene, deals with church-state tension...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). Part I of a two-part report, Poland on a Tightrope...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). Filmed biography of Hermann Göring, Adolf Hitler's top accomplice. Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, who prosecuted Göring at the Nuremberg trials, will help out Narrator Walter Cronkite...
...only convenient mode of transportation. Train crews now need travel only 100 miles to earn a full day's pay; an engineer making an eight-hour round trip between New York and Washington would earn 4 1/2 days' pay, while the 16 engineers and firemen who handle the Twentieth Century Limited earn 19.2 days' wages in a single night. The Interstate Commerce Commission has calculated railway employees work only 57 per cent of the time for which they are paid...