Word: impactions
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...Kress consented to try for a world's catching championship by catching baseballs thrown to them from the top of a 625-foot Sky Ride tower (see p. 14). When a mathematician found that the balls would be traveling 136.80 miles an hour, would strike with an impact of 6,604 foot pounds, White Sox Owner Louis A. Comiskey refused to risk his players...
...Maryland, lawyer of Washington. Secretary Woodin did not meet the man who was to be his chief fiscal adviser until after the appointment was made. Largely responsible for Mr. Acheson's selection was his good young friend. Director of the Budget Lewis Williams Douglas, whose word has impact at the White House. Long familiarity with intricate tax cases comprised the new Undersecretary's principal qualification...
Great gobbets of flame and fiery debris were flung from the exploding wreckage, quickly igniting an adjacent house, five of whose occupants were injured. Fire engines nudged through crowds of terrified spectators to find both dwellings blazing, roaring pyres. The impact and explosion had been heard several miles away...
Obviously this thesis has some merit, though it does not carry quite the impact of originality which its champion claims for it. Anyone's appreciation of classic or even modern literature is conditioned by his sympathy for its social origins; but Mr. Harris forgets, or underestimates, the fact that sympathy is a product of the imagination more than of factual knowledge. Apart from this, "Case for Tragedy" is marred by a false emphasis on values extraneous to art as art, and by positive mistakes in literary judgement which are the disastrous. The temptation for a modern writer to call Date...
Searching questions are the fashion of the day. In a world where economy reigns, every institution, every activity must justify itself. It is essential that higher education be subjected to the same skeptical analysis as everything else. Such analysis will have an impact on the individual student as well as on the system as a whole...