Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news of it was announced on Monday, TIME'S press day. In the next issue, Jonathan Norton Leonard was advised by his managing editor, a special Atomic Age section (TIME, Aug. 20, 1945) would try to tell the significance of the atomic bomb and Science's share of it would be to explain "how it works." Leonard got hold of the now famous Smyth report, sat up until 4 a.m. digesting it and wrote his story, which, checked by an atomic physicist, turned out to be correct in every detail. The Smyth report later proved...
...Gielgud's "Season of comedy" on Broadway. It is not Gielgud's better half; but, after all, Gielgud's Importance of Being Earnest was far & away the most brilliant revival of the season. Earnest, moreover, is only 52 years old; Love for Love, 252. For its age, Love for Love gets around on a Broadway stage very nicely...
...experiment, the researchers chose 69 children, aged 5 to 17, including a mentally retarded group (average I.Q.: 65), and some epileptics of normal or superior intelligence (glutamic acid had previously been used for treating epilepsy). The children got heavy daily doses (average: 12 grams), usually mixed with food, because glutamic acid by itself is sour, oily and unpalatable. In too big doses, the acid made the children restless and sleepless; in doses they could tolerate, it produced a remarkable improvement in alertness, drive, ability to solve problems. At the end of a year the children's I.Q.s had risen...
...Midwesterner by birth like Dean Hanford, he earned his college education by teaching grade school and by working as a railroad hand. He studied for two years at Goshen College, Indiana, transferring to Harvard and graduating at the age...
...age of 18, he came east to study at the Harvard Law School. Pound took the freshman courses and sat in one as many others as he could...