Word: development
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Western Europe's need to develop atomic energy for peaceful uses is more urgent than the U.S.'s. Within the next three years, some European nations will be facing power shortages; within the next 30 years, Western Europe will be running out of coal and will have expanded hydroelectric capacity to the limit. But though the U.S. has some 50 research and power reactors under way, Western Europe has only...
Slow Marvels. This is what the aerodyne does, says Dr. Lippisch. He thinks that the design will be more suited to large aircraft than small. So far, his aerodyne is strictly experimental, and he does not want to predict when it will come into flying use. "I developed the delta-wing aircraft back in the '30s," he says, "and look at the time it took to develop them. I ran into the same trouble that I am running into now. Everyone marvels, but the development away from conventional, conservative systems is hard to get started...
Another small prep school--Groton--has met the challenge of selection more successfully, largely because the headmaster, the Rev. John Crocker '22 has maintained the traditional purpose of the school. He does not believe in selecting students solely on their intellect. 'Groton's purpose, according to him, is "to develop boys in body, mind, and spirit." Many average boys are "awfully happy here," he notes. The large number of boys who regularly gain admission to Harvard--usually about 15 from a class of 40--would seem to indicate that he has discovered a satisfactory way to run a school...
...Nutrition and will be under the direction of Dr. Frederick J. Stare, the Department's head. "One of our main problems of present-day scientific investigation," said Dean Snyder, "is that most of our research funds are awarded on an annual basis. This makes it very difficult to develop long-range programs or to keep scientists of high ability on our staff...
High-Speed Breeding. Trying to develop a blight-resistant kind of oat, Plant Pathologist H. E. Wheeler of Louisiana State University envied the wholesale methods of bacteriologists. When they want a bacterial strain that is resistant to, say, penicillin, they treat a culture containing millions or billions of bacteria with the drug. Only a few may survive, but the survivors multiply rapidly, and soon the culture is alive with the resistant strain...