Word: adopted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Class Committee has voted to "adopt" the orphan through the Foster Parents Plan, Inc., under a program which will extend for the next four years as a group project. The class will provide the orphan with clothes, food, and education...
...Force, rapped it as "patchwork." Less publicly, Pentagon brass agreed with him. Trying to solve the nagging re-enlistment problem with so skimpy a measure seemed like trying to bail out a leaky rowboat with a beer can. What the military leaders wanted to see was adoption of the newly released Cordiner report, a thoughtful pay-revision plan drawn up by a military-civilian advisory committee chaired by General Electric's President Ralph J. Cordiner. Disappointed with Wilson's pay-boost directive, Cordiner warned him in a letter last week that "benefits cannot be achieved by half measures...
...dozen new universities have sprung into being to provide training in arts and sciences to the sons of illiterate bushmen. In one of the largest of them, at Ibadan, an all-black Nigerian city of 459,000, eager young Africans full of ideas on how to remake the world adopt the manners and academic costumes of their distant white cousins at Oxford and Cambridge. The white man's faith has also come with him to temper with Christian mercy the harsh superstitions of native paganism: Catholicism in the Congo, Anglicanism in British East Africa, isolated settlements of other Protestant...
...outstrip Britain, Russia, and ourselves in nuclear power development. The fast-moving Europeans will quickly establish a system in which our own unclear inventions and schemes can be tested. We are providing one half of the reactors and will observe, from Euratom's experiments, what techniques U.S. industry can adopt...
...College of Medical Evangelists and Los Angeles City Health Department began a routine test for all infants taken to a child clinic. A drop of ferric chloride is applied to a diaper; if the urine turns green, the child has the disease. Hope is that physicians generally will adopt the simple test. ¶Cleveland Clinic researchers headed by Dr. Irvine H. Page (TIME. Oct. 31, 1955) reported a chemical victory that may lead to better understanding and treatment of high blood pressure. They have synthesized angiotonin II, the active form of the hormone angiotonin (discovered by Page in 1939), which...