Word: within
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Holding in her own name a wealth of land, ships' cargoes, and bullion, she was able nearly to treble her estate within the next 20 years, directly profiting from the economic instability caused by the Long Parliament and the Civil...
While Eliot, in his 40 years as president, had been primarily interested in unified administration for the whole University, Lowell was concerned with academic reform within the College. The College should be the foundation on which the rest of the University is built, he declared. If the College is "not to be absorbed by the secondary school on the one side and the professional school on the other, we must construct a new solidarity to replace that which is gone...
There are two kinds of energy: "tangential" energy on the outside of entities, and "radial" energy, which operates within. Everything, says Teilhard, has this "within" and "without," and it is the radial energy within that is the evolutionary force, driving toward greater and greater complexity. This drive produced the molecule, the cell, organic life, up through the ooze...
...native of South Carolina, who has practiced in Elgin, Okla. (pop. 450 by his best estimate) since 1915, has delivered about 2,500 babies in 1,200 sq. mi. of ranch country. At first he made house calls on horseback, graduated to what he calls a "T-model" within a year. Dr. Martin rarely charges more than $2 for an office visit, dispenses his own drugs, described his plans for retirement in a word: none...
McDonald later proposed that the President's board of inquiry, which was set up under the Taft-Hartley Act, recommend the terms of a settlement; he promised to settle "within the framework of the board's recommendations." The President turned down the suggestion in favor of another try at collective bargaining. In high moral tones that stressed the nation's welfare, both sides pledged once more to forge ahead for a settlement-then went right back to bickering...