Word: developer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will plan Stage II of the Truman Doctrine still believe they have some time; Marshall hopes for seven to eight months in which to develop the new post-illusion foreign policy, sell it to Congress and the country. But from past experience, the U.S. may not have that much time. Or, if it does, the U.S. may learn that it will cost $2 next year to do what $1 might have done this year...
...field. Today's ground-floor nucleus will make or break its great chance to capture mass support tomorrow by the means it devises to implement its ideals. From the current program embracing labor rights, federal aid to education, civil liberties, and universal military training two sorts of approach can develop: the agitation tactic which alienates the men it should most woo simply because of what it is (making smalltime political capital from colossal issues) or the militant but intelligent approach which seeks to offer something concrete to the solution of actual problems. Choosing the latter will spell a busy...
...cold and starve a fever." He found that as body temperature rises above normal (fever), the rate of metabolism goes up rapidly; thus more rather than less fuel (food) is needed. During World War II, as a Navy captain, he put his knowledge to work by helping to develop the airman's "G-suit" and electrically heated clothing. At the moment, as head of the Physiology Department at Cornell Medical College, he is trying to find out why women who wear open-toed shoes don't catch their deaths in winter...
...eucalyptus leaves in their huts to keep out the sandfly. They also dose themselves with red wine and water in which corn silk has been boiled. Neither measure does much good. The natives appear to survive mainly because those who live through a mild form of verruga in childhood develop immunity...
Connelly, bald, portly and more solemn with the years, is very serious about what he considers an exciting chance to develop the "theater as a social force" at Yale. Says he: "I hope my students won't be just writing for Broadway. I hope they'll be writing for the world...