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Word: worked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition, over half favor "right-to-work" laws. Probably influenced by revelations of union corruption, and the huge amount of anti-union propaganda distributed in the recent Congressional campaign, a significant group of "moderate liberals" have apparently joined the "conservatives" in their sympathy for this bit of legislation...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock, | Title: 'Moderate Liberals' Predominate Politically | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

According to the students themselves, the most decisive factor in the change has been their "lectures and assigned reading in courses"--reinforced by the "influence of friends" (who are, of course, reading many of the same books) and "increased thinking about political questions" (stimulated largely by course work and, to some extent, by increased "independent" reading...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock, | Title: 'Moderate Liberals' Predominate Politically | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...political study end in quick failure. After one or two enthusiastic meetings, most members realize that they lack both the time and the special competence to gain an adequate understanding of, say, the disarmament issue--the variety of plans involved, their implications, the history of negotiations, the forces at work on the participants...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock, | Title: 'Moderate Liberals' Predominate Politically | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...Work will continue on the commons building, housing the dining room and recreation areas, and on the separate library building. Indications are that the dining room will be completed in time for upperclass registration on Friday and that the library will be ready several weeks later...

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: The Hole That Came True: Quincy Opens Its Doors | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...that quite the opposite is true: eternity is only "shortened," as it were--the fate of one's soul, one's hopes for "eternal happiness," for salvation, that is to say, remain at least as pressing as ever. It's just that now we only have one world to work with instead...

Author: By Friedrich Nietzsche, | Title: The Religion of Unbelief: Ethics Without God | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

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