Word: interprets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which began shortly after World War I (and publishes the quarterly review Foreign Affairs), is a nonprofit institution devoted to research and study of the international aspects of American political and economic problems. The purpose of the fellowship is to "help correspondents to increase their competence to report and interpret events abroad ... to give men who have been preoccupied with meeting deadlines an opportunity to broaden their perspective by means of a coordinated program of reading, study and informal discussion." Richardson will study at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of International Affairs, and commute to New York for council...
...Kinsey Report challenges a reply: This is the first time in my life I have been made aware that it takes a college education to interpret sex. I always thought the animals in the country gave the most natural demonstration of sex-at least they do not read books and they do not abuse the business . . . The garbled trash that is flouted upon our youth today in the name of education is responsible for the demoralization of the group...
...gift and its terms: "To honor Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick for his distinguished contributions as teacher, preacher, writer and counselor, and to strengthen the training of the . . . leaders of the Christian church so as to enable them in their generation, as Dr. Fosdick has in his generation, to interpret the abiding truths and experiences of Christian faith...
...People are puzzled today as to how you get medical care," said another panel member. He thought internists should "interpret and lead." But few conventioneers seemed interested in citizenship problems. While the panel met, more than 1,000 physicians pushed into another meeting room to hear a highly technical discussion of a couple of autopsies-involving problems that the average internist seldom meets in a lifetime of normal practice...
...first public display of a wondrously effective device-the canonization of Lenin-to which Stalin held and preserved all the patents. It enabled Stalin to accuse his enemies not of disagreeing with Stalin, but of disobedience to the gospel of Marxist-Leninism, a monolithic dogma which he could quote, interpret or pervert to meet any need...