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Word: attainability (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rupert Emerson '22, professor of Government, the other speaker, said that America's best course of action in Southeast Asia would now be "to show them that they are most likely to attain their national equality through association with the free nations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Indonesian Labels U.S. Asian Policy 'Impasse' | 2/13/1952 | See Source »

Jewell ships out chicks to nearly 1,000 farmers in eleven counties, provides them with feed, on credit. After the birds are fattened, Jewell takes them back, paying the farmers on the basis of weight gained. His rule of thumb: an average flock of 1,000 chicks should attain a live weight of 2¾ Ibs. apiece in eleven weeks, on 9,000 Ibs. of feed. For this standard performance, the farmer nets $125. If more feed is used, the farmer is docked; if less, he gets a premium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: The Cackle King | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

...Committee expected that permanent faculty members would take on the seven Senior Tutor positions, but it has become obvious, as the faculty recognized in its resolution, that no one above assistant professor will have anything to do with the job. Since these younger men will be busy trying to attain permanent status, and since they will lack the experience of an older man, this is a serious setback for the Bender Plan. But it does not justify throwing out an otherwise sound program...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Piecemeal Reproach | 12/14/1951 | See Source »

...Pfizer says that out of 3,000 pigs scientifically nursed on six farms, only 5% died. The normal mortality under the sow's regimen is 21% to 33%. The pigs grow faster, too. They reach 28 Ibs. in six weeks instead of the normal eight weeks, and they attain marketable size 40 days earlier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pigs Without Moms | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

...speaks often in great half-sobs, often raises his arms to heaven, often staggers about the stage. If Lear were an ordinary man, Devlin would stand convicted of the grossest heroics. But Lear is not ordinary: his rages are monumental, 'his sufferings monumental. One must overplay, overreach oneself to attain such lofty heights--Devlin does...

Author: By John R. W. smail, | Title: The Playgoer | 11/23/1951 | See Source »

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