Word: developers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stakman, 59, is perhaps the world's No. 1 expert on cereal diseases. On a 40-acre laboratory plot at Minnesota, he cultivates almost every plant disease known to the Midwest. There are thousands upon thousands. Stake's object is to develop tough new varieties of wheat and other cereals that will resist these diseases. But no sooner does he defeat one disease than a brand-new one, almost invariably, breaks out. Thirty-five years of such battling has convinced Stake that, for all of science, the best man can ever hope to do against bugs and plant...
Although the Allied move to envelop, capture and develop Cherbourg as a port was plainly behind schedule, the campaign was running smoothly, overcoming great handicaps. Said Bradley: "The Germans have lost their last chance to drive us into...
...birth of freedom, if any, must come from within. . . . What a free press needs is an owner who recognizes . . . his responsibility to represent the unrepresented . . . a man whose passion for the general welfare overcomes his desire to impose his own ideas upon the community. . . . Such ownership would develop new methods of management. It would exploit and thereby stimulate the professional instincts of the working staff. . . . Good management would operate the newspaper as the cooperative endeavor it must...
...Kansas City Star printed a note from a Kansan in New Delhi: "I read an article saying that American scientists are developing a new breed of sheep with short legs. They also are trying to develop turkeys with smaller bodies to provide small pieces for small families. I am sure these scientists have never been where they had to eat mutton cooked British style. . . . Legislation should be passed to prevent these scientists from further experiments. They should spend their time developing a turkey with four legs and two breasts so that the boys can enjoy themselves after they come home...
...Harvard before he went to Yale. He wrote his first scientific work at about the same time that he published his first book of verse (Songs of Love and Sorrow). His first studies were of beetles and bees, concerning which he made some significant discoveries (e.g., that drones develop from unfertilized eggs). He also made revealing investigations of the digestion of cockroaches. He has written authoritatively on philosophy and the Russian Revolution, has long been president of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. But for some 40 years spiders have been his prime concern...