Word: never
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course the West has never worried about gaining agreement to a cessation of tests but it has been concerned over Soviet willingness to accept a reasonably effective control system to police the ban. Compromise by both sides on their interpretation of the word "reasonable" has helped achieve agreement on this essential element...
...left Cambridge in 1894, a philosopher and high Wrangler (the university's term for top mathematicians), he was close to what his father had wanted him to be, and since then, Rationalist Russell has frequently attacked religion. All the more notable is his conclusion that science can never say what ought to be done. In this view, the reader can find a reproach to the hubris of today's vociferous army of scientist-prophets, notably the late Albert Einstein in the U.S., J.B.S. Haldane in Britain, Joliot-Curie in France...
...when and with what results-so that for Americans who have accepted the notions of William James and John Dewey, no less than for Nikita Khrushchev, truth is apt to be just a matter of whose ox is gored. Britain's logical positivists, who believe that philosophy can never reach beyond semantics, are engaged in the self-devouring enterprise of proving their right to say less and less about fewer and fewer things...
Ashore, military operations moved on schedule, though not with the deceptive ease of Historian Morison's brisk and necessarily brief account. In Manila alone, 20.000 Japanese fought house-to-house to the death. Except for Leyte. the Japanese never made any concerted attacks on U.S. beachheads, and this undoubtedly speeded the pace of the campaigns. After Luzon was secured, 38 major and minor landings were launched in 44 days, a record for amphibious operations unlikely ever to be challenged. If U.S. troops paid for their victories (761 killed in Mindanao), the Japanese overpaid staggeringly for their defeats...
...freshman football team produced several individual standouts this season but was never able to function as a well-balanced unit for any length. Even so, Henry Lamar's eleven was able to finish with a respectable 3-3 record...