Word: past
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...doing evil. By the jury's verdict he was marked as a man who, having dedicated himself to Communism under a warped sense of idealism, had not served it openly, but covertly; a man who, having .once served an alien master, lacked the courage to recant his past, but went on making of his whole life an intricate, calculated...
Spruce from a new overhaul, the mighty U.S.S. Missouri-the only active battleship in the U.S. Navy-steamed out of Norfolk last week headed for Caribbean maneuvers. For lean, strong-jawed Captain W. D. Brown, it was the first trip since he took command last December. Just past Old Point Comfort, the Mighty Mo swung to the north of the familiar channel to run a new acoustic range. The Mighty Mo never swung back. With the sickening sensation that only a sailor can know, Captain Brown felt his ship touch bottom. Slowly, majestically, the 57,600 tons of the Mighty...
...loyal men united at a university for a special purpose, "governed by its own traditions and perpetrated by its own rules, yet given a recognized status by a higher authority, must be an unconscious agent for the spread of ideas hostile to all forms of tyranny. No authoritarian state, past, present or future could tolerate for long such foci of anti-totalitarian infection...
Hutchins Hits Past...
Hutchins during his speech painted a gloomy picture of the trends of education in the past several centuries. The dominant feature of the medieval college, he said, was the disputation. The age of debate gave way to the age of discovery. Inquiry was promoted by specialization and the experimental method...