Word: view
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This interpretation was made after the design"), the shape honors an old symbol* that early Christians, pushed underground for their heretical beliefs, defiantly scratched on the walls of the Catacombs. Harrison's main purpose in using the design was to avoid inner supports and thus provide an unimpaired view. The sloping walls of the sanctuary, which is 60 ft. high at its peak, support each other; the principle is the same as that which causes a piece of firm paper to stand when it is creased and placed on edge...
...your article on the President's vacation with ex-Treasury Secretary Humphrey: What a difference in point of view! To me, it seems that our President chose one of our country's financial wizards with whom to study leisurely and analyze-thus giving tremendous meaning to his message...
...time we employed 1,700 workers producing similar products in America. Seldom have I encountered what I consider to be such editorial leadership and civic accomplishment, as well as courage, as was shown by TIME in its March 3 Business section. My congratulations on your broad point of view and your atriotism in thinking of all America and its verseas relationships-rather than a small area of self-interest...
While there are differing points of view about what should be done, the critical, basic need is clear: the federal regulatory agencies badly need a streamlining...
...President Wilson was in an idealistic swivet. In Kennan's view, he cherished an "image of the Russians as a simple people, clothed in a peculiar virtue compiled of poverty, helplessness, and remoteness from worldly success-a mass of mute, suppressed idealists languishing beneath the boot of the German captor." The real boot, of course, was the Soviet reign of terror; Lenin and Trotsky, between hasty Kremlin lunches "of salt pork, buckwheat grits, and red caviar," were stamping out all political opposition. Wilson might never have heeded Anglo-French pleas for intervention had it not been for "sentimental" considerations...