Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which stands 5 feet high and ten feet across--when the pieces are fitted together properly. The Play-dome is intended for 3 to 13 year olds who, utilizing its vinyl-plastic cover, can make it a clubhouse, cave, mountain, trampoline set, igloo, or inter-stellar space station depending upon the relative imaginations and precocity. "Little girls," claim its inventors, "can use it for their own Teahuose of the August Moon...
...plan aimed at limiting and eventually halting H-bomb construction. Gist of the plan: the U.S., Britain and Russia, having first agreed on an "effective inspection plan," should 1) halt production of fissionable material for weapons purposes on April 1, 1958, or as soon as possible thereafter upon the ratification of the necessary agreements; and 2) thereafter divert all such nuclear production to peaceful purposes. Net effect of the plan: while allowing the big powers to hang on to nuclear weapons stockpiled before the cut-off date, it would "reverse the trend" of nuclear armament and pave...
...cloth to what it has, not to what it would like to have. As we understand it, what the President is saying here is that the British are having to sink or swim in their effort to plant the seedbed of a viable economy, and that they cannot insist upon sewing too fine a seam in doing it. To put it another way and quite simply, the United Kingdom has its back to the wall in its Spartan efforts to climb out of the slough of despond, and there is no use crying over spilt milk; whilst, if they...
...involving religious controversy" was deplored by Sevellon Brown III, editor of the Providence Journal-Bulletin (combined circ. 202,819). Wrote he: "Any newspaper boss who is afraid of alienating readers or advertisers by the straightforward handling of news or the vigorous expression of editorial opinion when religious viewpoints impinge upon public affairs is seeing things under the bed . . . The bulk of newspaper readers are essentially reasonable people over the long run. They'll howl plenty when you tread on their pet opinions - especially religious opinions. But if they see that you don't hesitate to tangle with other...
...relation to Hungary, Barth has been what Niebuhr calls "a kind of unofficial Pope of the Hungarian Reformed Church." Called upon in 1948 by that church for advice in its relations with the Communist regime, Barth encouraged collaboration with the Reds, and urged the church not to let opposition to the Communists guide its affairs. Niebuhr concedes that Barth is no Marxist and grants that in East Germany Barth's "eschatological emphasis has inspired a kind of religious resistance which has permitted the East German Christians to bear witness to their faith." But why has Barth not confessed that...