Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There may be some sort of peace at the moment, as opponents of internationalization argued. But that peace will last only until one of the armies decides it is the stronger. And there are always the bomb-planters who cannot wait for official shooting to start. Bi-lateral treaties, even if made with all sincerity by leaders, can never assure unmolested access to Jerusalem's Shrines. If nations are going to allow the UN to use its powers, they must let it decide what is "likely" to destroy peace and act accordingly...
...directed to school classes, with teachers on the spot amplifying the instruction. In Poland, scattered professional men--such as country doctors--were kept in touch with the latest techniques and progress in their fields. In Holland, radio is now used for giving primary education to children of bargemen, who cannot attend a regular school...
Such a big research program, in which the grants received don't meet enough of the overhead costs, cannot go on forever. That's why the Medical School's new dean, George P. Berry, is quite busy these days reorganizing the School's money-raising activities in the hope of encouraging more gifts that have no restrictions attached. It will be quite a job to woo such contributions, for there is no romance in giving money that merely greases the wheels...
...escape into outer space, Lewis pointed out, requires an initial speed of 6.95 miles a second (25,020 m.p.h.). This requirement cannot be dodged by running the rocket motor slowly over a long period; that would only waste energy by forcing the ship to carry heavy fuel to a greater height...
...optimism, the A.S.M.E. also honored, as the year's best technical paper by an undergraduate, a piece of rocket-pessimism by George D. Lewis of the University of Connecticut. Engineer Lewis, who now works for Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Co., argued mathematically that a single-stage, chemically fueled rocket cannot escape from the earth's gravitation...