Word: development
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...issues of 1956, said Stevenson, are "the great problems of our time, war and peace, what to do with the uncontrolled atom, how to meet the Communist challenge, how to provide better schools, health, highways, how to restore the farmer's wellbeing, how to conserve and develop our natural resources, the relation of Government to its citizens, and the gathering crisis in the relations of Americans to each other...
...months ago, the beast was performing probably wolf's greatest service to man since the she-wolf suckled Romulus and Remus. The wolf of Sahneh was rabid, and his appearance was just what a World Health Organization team had been waiting for. If it gets a chance to develop, rabies is invariably fatal. Ever since the days of Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), doctors have been able to head off rabies with a series of 14 to 21 vaccinations, but the treatment is costly, painful-and sometimes fatal. A "hyper-immune serum." developed about ten years after Pasteur...
...roster contains four such men. When a team starts with such an advantage--almost as many proven All-Americans as the opposition has total squad members--that team has a tremendous edge merely in depth, no matter how great a coach Ulen is or how amazingly his swimmers develop...
...year to $258 million in 1955. He also shaved the price of power to residential consumers from 3.15? per kw. in 1947 to 2.4? (at least .2? lower than the 1955 national average). He accomplished this chiefly by pioneering many technical advances in the industry. In 1947 Sporn helped develop AGE's 330,000-kw., high-voltage transmission lines, the most powerful (and therefore most economical) in the U.S. Sporn will soon start operating the first U.S. power plant (Philo, Ohio) in which ultra-high-pressure steam is used to generate power...
...infinite complications that develop when they try to cover the misfortune, which they figure is best done by earthing old Harry on top of the hill, are inevitable. The script Hitchcock uses is in the manner of a very garrulous Noel Coward, lacking a great deal of the sponteneity and verve which make salon situation humor tolerable. Funny verbal exchanges might have saved the endless repetition of burying Harry, digging him up, and then burying him again. Poor cold Harry must not have been amused...