Word: viewpoint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strange how we of the occupation forces over here on the other side of the world sometimes find ourselves feeling as though we are now watching our country somewhat as we watched a football game or a school play back home-from a spectator's viewpoint...
Harvardmen accustomed to sneering at their sisters across the Common had better think twice this week, for the Radcliffe Idler is giving a performance which from every possible dramatic viewpoint dwarfs the HDC's recent efforts into supreme insignificance. Why J. M. Synge's "The Tinker's Wedding" had never been produced in the United States before Thursday night is a mystery not easily solved; but whatever the reasons, Idler is doing on outstanding job on a wonderfully amusing comedy by one of Ireland's greatest playwrights...
Defending the negative viewpoint against a visiting Princeton team will be David Funk, NROTC, Elton C. McNeil '49, and Monroe S. Singer '47; this contest will begin at 8 o'clock in the Adams House Upper Common Room...
...clock? Looking from the front, the steering wheel of a car is on the right side; the starboard running light of a ship is on the left. To determine the "side" of anything else, you look at it from behind or, really, you consider the object's own viewpoint. Why slight the clock...
...that defenses will fix everything. But Louis N. Ridenour shows the impotency of anything under one hundred percent defense, and the physical impossibility of anything over ninety percent defense. It is the huge destructive power of the bomb that makes even ten percent efficiency economical from an attacker's viewpoint. For, per square mile destroyed, an atomic bomb of the Hiroshima class is six times cheaper than other explosives, according to General Arnold, and possibly up to one hundred times cheaper, according to J. R. Oppenheimer...