Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...often asked is, 'how long is the training period?' Usually formalized programs in banks vary in length from six months to two or more years. However, it is impossible to say that the training ends at that stage; for, as in all professions, the formalized training becomes a background on which the individual will build his source of knowledge with his practical experience. Actually the training of a successful banker never ceases. It is only the one lacking in the ability to grow whose training ceases with the limitations of his capabilities...
...week's end the murder motive remained unclear. Inevitably, there was talk that Remington had been killed because of his Communist background. Said the Daily Worker: "To shocked humanity it will smell strongly like the jails of Hitler and Mussolini.'' The FBI and Remington's lawyer doubted that politics played the slightest part in the crime...
...near the Nevada atom-bomb testing ground have found it impossible to use Carbon 14; there is too much competing radioactivity in their vicinity. Even on the Eastern seaboard, Carbon 14 work at the University of Pennsylvania has often been stopped by a radioactive cloud drifting slowly overhead. The "background radiation" gets so strong that the voice of Carbon 14, like a soprano in a boiler factory, cannot be heard above...
...result, scientists have already begun to make corrections. Background radiation, if not too powerful, can be screened away by more elaborate shielding. Samples to be tested can be purified by turning their carbon into a gas that leaves the fallout particles behind. Most of the laboratories are already planning to shift to the gaseous method, which has other advantages also. But if bigger bombs are tested in larger numbers, scientists may have to abandon their cherished system of Carbon 14 dating...
...Still Life with Portraits, a weathered door hung with a worn horseshoe, a bugle, an ancient pistol and pictures of Lincoln, Sarah Bernhardt and Henry Clay. Another achieves part of its realism because it was done in collaboration with his seven-year-old son, Neil. Against the usual wooden background, it shows a leaky water pistol, Halloween masks, a torn piece of a newspaper photo and a child's slate. On the slate is a drawing of a witch-by Neil...