Word: originated
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...purpose and origin of the poll are a total mystery. The return address on the questionnaire is a box in the Minneapolis main post office. There is no telephone listing there for anything called "National Campus Poll"; someone named E. W. Pryor, who signed the letter accompanying the questionnaire, is not listed there either...
...tribes than with a few strong rival groups. In the early '60s in Rwanda, the squat Bahutu literally cut the tall, stately Watutsi down to size by whacking their legs off. Thus ended the age-old Watutsi hegemony over the Bahutu. Two smoldering guerrilla wars are ethnic in origin: Black Africans are pitted against lighter-skinned Arabs in the Sudan and Chad. A tense situation that has led to riots and gunplay but not war exists...
...have nurtured what he calls the "experimenticist fallacy": the false notion that theory always flows directly from experiment. In the process, he says, they do not fully recognize the extraordinary intellectual daring of Einstein's equations, and also ignore the great scientist's own explanation of their origin: "There is no logical way to the discovery of these elementary laws. There is only the way of intuition...
...Although the evidence, in my opinion points most strongly to Polish intelligence as the culprit, none of those theories (on the origin of the letter) can yet be completely dismissed," Butler said...
...lunar investigators finally took time out from their work to report on what they had learned so far. Their findings add a vast store of fresh knowledge about the earth's nearest celestial neighbor, but leave unanswered most of the puzzling questions about the moon's origin and evolution...