Word: unexpectedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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A fortnight ago, the Paraguayan rebels seemed to have all but won the war. They had made a bold move in abandoning their base in Conception (TIME, Aug. 18), to strike down river against the capital of Asunción, 130 miles to the south. But as they smashed into...
With 1250 new applications for rooms in front of him, Robert B. Watson '37, associate dean of the College, in charge of undergraduate housing, said yesterday that commuting requirements cannot be lowered and that unless there is an unexpected shrinkage at registration the Houses may have to expand their capacities...
Edgar Baker of TIME-LIFE International, publishers and distributors of our overseas editions, returned last week from a six months' business trip to the South Pacific, Malaya and India, where he experienced the usual quota of unexpected surprises and contradictions.
Viruses, says Burnet, are an unhappy byproduct of civilization; they cannot survive in small or widely scattered populations. Because viruses multiply fast and change in unexpected ways, "new virus diseases of man may well arise in the future." But the chances against any new virus getting a strong foothold are...
Those for whom the unexpected is what makes life stimulating must find the gyrations of the present Congress almost insupportably exciting. The House, for example, after its flood of rhetoric about our obligation to shore up the world's economy through Truman doctrine expenditures, has calmly added to the wool...