Word: twofold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard, MIT, and the Atomic Energy Commission planned the research center for a twofold purpose. First, they will use the apparatus to produce strange particles--short-lived and unstable packets of energy such as hyperons, anti-protons, and anti-neutrons...
...major stumbling blocks, according to Cochran, are twofold: Firstly, the committee must determine "how many and what kind of students would be interested in concentration," and secondly, whether the Department, with its paucity of lectures, could present "a creditable program...
True marriage and parenthood, said the committee, are areas in which the Christian is permitted freedom of twofold kind: "This means freedom from sensuality and selfishness which enslave. It also means considerable latitude of choice, when the motives are right, in regard to mutually acceptable and noninjurious means to avert or defer conception." The only controlling factor: individual conscience. God has put it up to husband and wife to decide for themselves, said the committee, "whether any one act of intercourse shall be for the enrichment or expression of their personal relationship only, or for the begetting of a child...
...motives of the non-Communist Americans in attending were a mixture of the opportunity to make meaningful contacts with uncommitted individuals, the hope of presenting a clear American viewpoint, and the curiosity to see first hand how the Soviets would run a show for 20,000. The objectives were twofold: to counter the Communist party line directed at festival participants, and to provide material opposed to the Communist's flood of propaganda both during and after the Festival...
...least 75, and possibly 100, students will work as faculty-aides next year if the Student Employment Office fulfills its current plans. The new program represents a twofold enlargement of this year's activities...