Word: interpretations
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Since the beginnings of science, every age has had its tradition of explainers, often scientists themselves, who clarified new and difficult ideas. In the 19th century, T.H. Huxley served as the spokesman of Darwinian evolution. Later such skilled popularizers as Arthur Eddington and Bertrand Russell helped interpret the startling new worlds of relativity and quantum mechanics...
Cohen said yesterday he plans to use his new post at the Minneapolis-based institute to research, interpret and preserve "the pioneering methods" of early computers...
...licenses in half of the states, including New York and California. Says Joseph Buckley, who heads the Chicago office of John E. Reid and Associates, one of the nation's leading testing firms: "Like an X ray, a polygraph records data that take a lot of expertise to interpret. In the wrong hands, it's worse than nothing...
...being ... 'Looking' became an act of devotion." Thus American landscape and its contents, the effects of light, weather, distance and time, were seen as the unedited manuscript of God. He had written his designs in great detail, and left his hierophants-scientist and painter -to decipher and interpret them. "The noblest ministry of nature," claimed Ralph Waldo Emerson, in the tone of transcendentalist piety whose echo is still heard among American environmentalists, "is to stand as the apparition of God." Not since the Middle Ages, when every animal or plant could be taken to symbolize some aspect...
...even when presented with the NLRB's election policy, Harden maintains that "that's a lot of hogwash." Apparently, Cotrell and Leonard chooses to interpret the law in its own fashion. Another incident is typical of the manner in which Cotrell and Leonard has managed--or mismanaged--the entire dispute: The working employees of the company, organized under Harden's personal secretary, began counter-picketting against the striking workers in early March. Although Harden and his secretary, June McPhail, insist company officials had nothing to do with the counter-activity, the NLRB found this development sufficient grounds for yet another...