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Once attached, the new engines brought another serious difficulty. As the turbines thrust forward in flight, the rear casing was bent one-twentieth of an inch out of shape, letting jet gases leak around the turbine. Result...
...work Merleau-Ponty left us is a testament to the fruitfulness of an intelligence shaped by, among others, Hegel, Marx and the phenologist Edmund Husserl, and a sensibility tested at once by modern art and literature, and by the intricacy and terror of politics in the twentieth century. Whether we shall prove capable of claiming- and keeping -out inheritance remains to be seen. What we can begin to see now is the extremity of the position he found himself in, and the scope of the task he set himself...
Blum's specialty has been twentieth century American history. He has written five books-including Woodrow Wilson and the Politics of Morality, The Republican Roosevelt, The Promise of America, and From the Morgenthau Diaries-and edited several others...
...worth mentioning that concentrations are not exactly intrinsic to the idea of education nor, for that matter, to the idea of Harvard. They did not even exist until the twentieth century. Departmental Honors programs were begun in 1908, and only in 1910 were concentration and distribution requirements inaugurated for everyone-a change which, according to Samuel Eliot Morison, was considered revolutionary. Before that, all one needed for graduation was to pass a certain number of courses, a mixture of free electives and a few prescribed courses. Indeed, a Faculty Report showed that 55 per cent of the class...
...Fostoria, Ohio at 5:30 a.m. and loaded aboard busses for the last leg of the trip. Then there is the nostalgia-tinged "last run," epitomized by the New York Central two years ago when, with much hoopla, it sadly announced the end of the Twentieth Century Limited between New York and Chicago. Actually, the train still runs, complete with Pullmans, dining and lounge cars, but it is now known merely as Train...