Word: use
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such a restrictive treaty could well be as damaging as no treaty at all. If scientists are forced to give up all hopes of testing theories on the constructive use of the atom, atomic research will lose many of its most devoted and imaginative workers. Even if the ban is legally only a temporary one, there will be a strong moral commitment implicit in it, which may make it difficult ever to resume tests. Considering the possible finality of the agreement they are undertaking, the men at Geneva should introduce flexible provisions governing peaceful experimentation under an international agency...
...failure just because is does not improve our logical capacities. Clear thinking involves not only logic but articulation and perspective, and by these criteria the college does indeed promote a certain kind of clarity. College graduates have larger vocabularies than high school students, even though they often use them less clearly. Not only that, but they have more information than their less educated counterparts, and information is prerequisite to articulation...
...American university is, as David Riesman has noted, the last refuge of free enterprise. In the literal sense it is a marketplace, where knowledge takes the place of money as common currency and people meet to exchange their ways. Scholars, like businessmen, hoard up this currency and use it to advance their ambitions. It is perhaps significant that the university library resembles a bank not only in its muffled impersonality, but in its very monumental achitecture...
...require a visit to a doctor. This makes it possible for women to be told about birth control without the written prescription which the law forbids. Birth control information for married couples can be given by word of mouth. There is no law in Massachusetts prohibiting the use of contraceptives...
...became apparent in late October that the project for the musical was too ambitious for the time available, Miss Rolnick said, although she hopes it can be done some time in the future. J. Jeremy Johnston '61 was to have done the adaptation with the use of Russian folk music...