Word: view
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Wernher von Braun [Sept. 21], always more adept at obtaining newspaper space than in penetrating outer space, is also weak in the history of his adopted country. "My country, right or wrong" is no "old English saying" but a slight misquote of a toast by Stephen Decatur.*The English view was best expressed by G. K. Chesterton: " 'My country, right or wrong' ... is like saying My mother, drunk or sober...
...been made toward solving the main issues of our destiny. It took 43 theologians five years of study to reach the conclusion that, after all, Hell may not be a place of fiery torment but a state of loneliness and frustration. This still makes very little difference in view of the Bible's numerous statements that Hell is the common grave of all mankind and where "man hath no pre-eminence above a beast [Ecclesiastes...
Said Labor Secretary James Mitchell as deadline loomed: "I want to urge upon the parties the fact that 1 temporary resumption of production under a Taft-Hartley injunction and a postponement of permanent settlement will solve nothing ... I would hope that, in view of the grave results that are liable to follow their continued inability to reach a permanent settlement, this final plea will make them mindful of their responsibility to their fellow citizens...
...become a burning issue around the Yard. American students simply lack the sharp class identity retained by students of colonial and underdeveloped areas. College students in the United States no not rest as far above the general population in ability to decide political issues from an "enlightened" point of view as their foreign counterparts. While many Latin American and African student unions are important political factors in their own countries, NSA is only one of a number of "pressure groups," drawing its strength from the prestige of the individual student governments in the Association...
...cannot bring myself to the view," he said, "that institutions should withdraw from the loan program and not allow each applicant to decide the matter for himself...