Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million. Since 1947, 40 major companies have gone broke. Because of the rapid deterioration of transit facilities, downtown merchants are losing trade to the suburbs, office workers are quitting jobs in downtown business districts, and in the most heavily congested areas real-estate values are going down and urban blight is going...
Tactical Affront. Ironically enough, it was under the prompting of Pope Urban VIII that Galileo began Dialogue on the Great World Systems, the masterpiece for which he was to be punished by the Inquisition. Warily checking his signals with the Pontiff. Galileo found that the Pope had only two reservations: i) the Copernican theory must be treated as a hypothesis, not as a certainty, and 2) since God was omnipotent and might create and govern the universe in any way He chose, Galileo was to put forth no proposition which "necessitated" God to operate in any one fixed way. Galileo...
...pledged to defend, then this country obviously must meet the challenge with military force. But massive atomic retaliation against Chinese cities, in response to a Chinese attack with conventional arms would be unthinkable. It probably would be unthinkable. It probably would be militarily ineffective in itself, since China's urban industrial base is still largely undeveloped. More than that however, such a response to a Communist attack would do serious harm to the American position in the world...
Donations of the remaining amount went to women's colleges, state and land-grant universities, private secondary schools, ten Canadian universities, urban universities, and junior colleges...
...college and university students attend public institutions, the pattern of the future is already well established. The state now has 66 publicly supported junior colleges, and the University of California has never shied away from opening up new campuses. Elsewhere, says President Samuel Gould of Antioch College, the urban college or university may play an increasingly bigger role in taking up the slack. "The idea of a central college with a number of branches located in strategic and nearby places will become the accepted permanent pattern." Businessmen and community leaders will serve as part-time teachers, the glamour and social...