Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fear very much that if certain modern Americans," and the President's voice began to rasp for the first time, "who protest loudly their devotion to American ideals, were suddenly to be given a comprehensive view of the earliest American colonists and their methods of life and government, they would promptly label them socialists. . . . We know, however, that although this school persisted . . . during the first three national Administrations it was eliminated, for many years at least, under the leadership of President Thomas Jefferson and his successors. His was the first great battle for the preservation of democracy...
...meet Britain. I beg those who are about to translate or murder my speech to note the difference between meeting Britain and clashing with Britain. . . . Britain is really living in the past in her judgment of Italy. She has a picturesque conception of Italy-a picturesqueness I detest. . . . In view of our common interests in the Mediterranean I believe it is possible to find a middle ground...
...Congress empowers the executive to enter into negotiations with a view to ascertaining the precise terms for the proposed establishment of a Jewish state...
...Three Men Discuss Relativity, Aspects of Science, Limitations of Science and other writings, Sullivan disclosed a remarkable flair for simplification, a style distinguished chiefly by lucidity and lack of pretension. Other eminent popularizers have their personal views of the mathematical chart of time and space, usually involving the relation of Science to God. Sullivan also had his personal view, a view wherein science was not entangled with any gods. He did not care for either preaching or carping. Science was a wellspring of beauty, a source of intensely satisfying esthetic experiences. The construction of Relativity was a beautiful piece...
...skipper did likewise. But no lobster pot was holding Endeavour back. Her sea-hardened paint was smooth, her hull sleek. Ranger's newer paint, however, was spotted, and her hull had to be daubed and cemented. Back at sea, Ranger proceeded to give Endeavour a further view of her stern, although Skipper Vanderbilt won the next two races by less embarrassing margins: 4 min. 27 sec. and 3 min. 37 sec. Nevertheless, Ranger set new America's Cup records by sailing the fastest 15-mile windward leg in 2 hr. 3 min. 55 sec. in the third race...