Word: devotee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dr. Bush, the inventor of a better-than-human calculator, M.I.T.'s famed differential analyzer, was impressed by the ingenious mechanical brains (directing gunfire, for example) developed during the war. Dr. Bush has decided that scientists should now devote themselves to organizing the vast amount of uncollated information about...
In the past our education has lacked certain important elements. One of these is a program to impress the young man and woman with a sense of responsibility to the national society. ... If it were simply taken for granted as part of our educational scheme that every man devote a...
As his armies battled grimly forward in eastern China (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS), Generalissimo Chiang Kai:shek streamlined his Government to keep political pace with them. In order to devote full time to his No. 1 job, strategy and the Army, he resigned his post as China's Premier. To...
Chicagoans have learned to put up with many a civic stench, but by September, 1944, some of them could no longer stand the smell of their public-school administration. They called on the National Education Association, lumbering but potent watchdog representing some 900,000 U.S. teachers, to investigate. But when...
"With the funds guaranteed and the selling of tickets off its hands, the Jubilee Committee can bend its efforts toward the perfection of its plans for music and dancing, refreshments, and decoration," McGill continued. "We are grateful to the CRIMSON and the editors of the Service News for their public...