Word: experimental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Compelling Urge. For the whys and wherefores of the new "national space program," the U.S. could look to the deceptively simple, 4,000-word space primer turned out by members of the Science Advisory Committee under the direction of White House Science Aide James R. Killian Jr. of M.I.T. (see...
In the latest phase of an experiment involving the injection of cancer cells into healthy bodies (TIME, Feb. 25, 1957), Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute again sought volunteers at the Ohio Penitentiary, found 52 takers, many of them urged on by Cleveland Osteopath and Convicted Wife-Slayer Samuel Sheppard...
Reporting the case, Kelsey and Barron made an acknowledgment unique in medical journals: "We should like to record our appreciation to our patient for his readiness to cooperate in the experiment, which might, almost too literally, have come unstuck."
As Archbishop of Chicago, largest Roman Catholic diocese in the U.S. (some 2,000,000 members), Tennessee-born Cardinal Stritch is known for devotion to charity, openness to experiment. His 18-year administration saw the establishment of the first U.S. chapter of the secular order Opus Dei (TIME, March 18...
Audience has more to offer when its column-tenants stick to their own experience. The poetry is generally original, in the spirit of experiment. Arthur Freeman metaphorizes Samuel Johnson's sensitive mind into a trailer-truck, a diesel, and a Pershing tank, in what is probably the volume's best...