Word: adoptive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conference to be called later this year. But debate was as long-winded as ever. By eleven to ten, delegates finally chose "Organization of American States" as their hemispheric system's new name. This week, still talking, they prepared to move back to the largely undamaged Capitolio, to adopt the new organization's charter...
...film, Human Growth, will prove a godsend to this country and its children. Not too long after the other 47 states adopt this program, I predict a new era, heralded by a decline in sex crimes and divorce. Take the mystery out of sex, bring it before the eyes, and indecency flies out the window. Let's all endeavor to see that our own states follow suit...
...health men, said Dr. J. R. Heller of the U.S. Public Health Service, have learned much from the book. The PHS will aim its antivenereal disease campaigns at parts of the population which Kinsey believes to be most sexually active (those with only grade-school education). PHS will also adopt Kinsey's interview techniques in tracking down sources of venereal disease...
President Seymour patted the Class of 1948 on the back for being the first electing to adopt the plan. The 1300 members of '48 were proud of their foresight...
...over the world. In 1919, Norway's Vilhelm Bjerknes and his son Jakob (now head of the Department of Meteorology at U.C.L.A.) hoisted forecasting into a third dimension and a new perspective with their analyses of air masses. U.S. airlines and other private concerns were quick to adopt the Norwegian techniques, but the Weather Bureau didn't get around to using them for more than a decade...