Word: lesson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This book, published in 1948, gave him a lesson in the semantics of U.S. publishing. His original title, The End of the Protestant Era?, was vetoed by the publishers on the grounds that no book with a question mark in the title sells well. "Then leave off the question mark," said Tillich. "That would be giving too much comfort to the Catholics," said his Protestant friends...
...lesson is one which Congress might do well to apply to the entire AEC. Although the proposal that civilian radiation safety measures should be moved out of the Commission seems a minor one, it is actually a major step in the right direction. If adopted, the change would be a laudable step toward making the Atomic Energy Commission a responsible organization, rather than the present monopoly of fact-finding and decision-making power, which allows policy to determine what facts shall be considered instead of letting facts determine the policy...
...whatever the reason for the secrecy, the inability to discover Discoverer I shows that the armed forces learned the lesson of Vanguard I fiasco not wisely but too well. Having been cautioned, after that widely publicized failure, that it should not have trumpeted so loudly before the firings, the Air Force veiled its two subsequent firings (the Atlas launched in December and the current Discoverer) in secrecy until their success was announced...
...fault with the method by which grammar has been taught in the past. She asserted, "There has been too much emphasis on the cas special, and subjects such as the order of pronouns have been taught in patches over a period of several months instead of in one concentrated lesson." Madame Duhamel, who taught French to foreign students at the Sorbonne in Paris for 12 years, felt that grammar should be over-simplified if necessary in order to get across to the student its essentially logical pattern...
According to M. Stanley Livingston, Director of the Harvard-M.I.T. joint Cambridge Electron Accelerator, the magnificent scientific achievements of the past International Geophysical Year have failed miserably in the field of international public relations. The key lesson of the world-wide experiment--that in science as in politics, trade or health, cooperation is far better than competition--went largely unnoticed in the face of the propagandistic race for satellites...