Word: careers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wings of the Wind. It was the end not only of that battle but of the war. The vote on the injunction showed the way the wind was blowing and Taft rode the wind to one of the most spectacular triumphs of his career. He offered an amendment to the Thomas bill which actually was a second serving of the Taft-Hartley Act, thinned down with 27 changes...
...Clifton Webb resumes his supercilious career as an all-round genius...
...myosin. When properly stimulated, the, synthetic muscles react much like the real thing. "We have reproduced, and thus made it possible to analyze, one of the most mysterious manifestations of life," says Szent-Gyorgyi. "Seeing actomyosin contract for the first time was the most exciting experience in [my] scientific career...
Whether or not William Beebe's discoveries put him among the great naturalists, his best books have as much charm and descriptive power as anything of the sort since Darwin's Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. In Beebe's career, High Jungle covers the Venezuelan phase, which began in 1945 after Beebe had abandoned his underseas adventures (during which he had successfully stared sharks out of countenance)* and returned to the job he loved best, the study of the jungle...
...award was accompanied by a citation which read in part "to one who won a place of great prominence in the sciences; an outstanding and distinguished scientist who has successfully combined the activities of home and career...