Word: brushups
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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Catalyst with Resilience. Having just weathered the toughest science brushup course of all time, Teacher Conant should be in good form. As chairman of the National Defense Research Committee he exercised absolute dictatorial powers over men and materials in its $2 billion wartime research program, developing radar, antiradar, various new chemical warfare wrinkles-and nuclear fission. Conant's job was as an organizer, moderator and catalyst, but he would have failed if he had not been a topnotch scientist...