Word: unseen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...while New England's authors, including University professors, were flocking to have their works set up on Mr. Wilson's presses, Harvard was burgeoning under the amiable dictatorship of President Eliot. By 1872, the revolutionary elective system had so widened the scope and number of course that an unseen difficulty arose. It was no longer possible to chalk up examinations on the blackboard, and nothing but printed exams seemed ractical. So, in that year, Eliot bought himself a press and the services of a second-rate journeyman printer, installing them both in a nook of University Hall's basement...
...unseen traffic cop is a radar meter. Of several brands the most commonly used is a 40-lb. aluminum-sheathed box with two sets of antennas and a price tag of $1,100.* It fits snugly into the rear of a prowl car. As a speeding car approaches, the meter's transmitting antenna sends out high-frequency radio waves that bounce off the car, change frequency and are picked up by the receiving antenna. The difference between the two frequencies tells the speed accurately (within 2 m.p.h.). (In a group of cars, the meter picks out the one that...
...states, where radar meters are now being used, there was no argument as to their effectiveness. Judges and juries have found that the meters are competent witnesses and entirely legal. But there was a great deal of argument over the ethics of using the unseen screen. ¶In Madison, Wis., the director of the state branch of the American Automobile Association publicly denounced the meters as an affront to law-abiding drivers. ¶In Rochester, motorists who put tin foil or steel marbles in their hubcaps in an unsuccessful effort to foul the detectors were charged with attempting to obstruct...
...Augie is living in Paris with Stella and, as usual, is deep in illicit business. But he feels he has arrived at wisdom. A man's character is his fate, Augie believes, and "this fate, or what he settles for, is also his character." The real battle, unseen from the outside, is internal, where "you labor, you wage and combat, settle scores, remember insults, fight, reply, deny, blab, denounce, triumph, outwit, overcome, vindicate, cry, persist, absolve, die and rise again. All by yourself! Where is everybody? Inside your breast and skin...
...Church of San Antonio, Texas, most spiritualists believe in six basic principles: 1) A Supreme Being, 2) the "soul of man as the Son of God," 3) Jesus Christ as the "greatest demonstrator" of spiritualism (but not the only begotten Son of God), 4) "communication between the seen and unseen worlds," 5) "salvation by character development-not by the Blood of the Lamb," 6) "eternal progression''-i.e., no death. Beyond these tenets, spiritualist speculation ranges untrammeled. Chief current controversy: Is reincarnation possible...