Word: understood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trying to figure out why. Astronomer Gerard P. Kuiper of the University of Chicago believes that the chief reason is the inaccuracy of man's fundamental timepiece, the revolution of the earth on its axis. For many reasons, including the drag of the tides and the little-understood motions of fluids in its interior, the turns of the earth vary slightly. This makes the earth a capricious clock which can be checked only by comparing its turning with the motions of independent bodies such as Mercury...
Demos admits that while his first days at Harvard were stimulating, they were also confusing. "Bertrand Russell who was then with the philosophy department confounded me with huge words that were not in my English vocabulary, and I read a paper by T.S. Elliot of which I understood about half...
Only a generation ago, anemia was both a common and a fashionable complaint. It was good for endless speculative chatter, because doctors understood little about it, and nearly every patient had his (or more often her) favorite patent nostrum. Last week, Salt Lake City's Dr. Maxwell Myer Wintrobe told a Manhattan audience of doctors how drastically the anemia story has changed in a mere three decades...
...British and U.S. magazines about the Nazi regime. At the end of the year, she was full of doubts. "Freddy was terribly interested in world affairs," says one of her school friends. "She had a pepperpot of a mind, and she was very loyal to Germany, but we always understood that her defense of the German government was simply a defense of her homeland...
...Seminar is now about seven years old. It has grown from the exciting idea born out of a "bull session" in Harvard Yard to a sound, stable project doing a practical, tangible, clearly understood job of creating better understanding of America abroad. We do not go to Salzburg and jam America down the Europeans' throats. Chauvinism does not exist in the Seminar's framework. We tell what America stands for to a highly intelligent group of Europeans chosen because they are in a position to mold public opinion. The free democratic teaching at Salzburg is in the traditions of Harvard...