Word: experimental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Meaning of Meaningless. At the same time, Secretary Dulles said that newsmen's passports will be validated only for seven months, "on an experimental basis," thereby putting the U.S. press on notice that it may stay in China on the sufferance of the State Department. During the probationary period, State Department officials explained, they will decide for themselves if Communist restrictions on news gathering make the experiment "meaningless...
This British-style experiment in integration really started last spring. Anglican Jory, who has long run a camp for boys from the slums of Leeds, got a letter from the chaplain of Oxford's Pembroke College explaining that a group of Christian Fellowship undergraduates had offered to serve as...
By last week not only the lady magistrate but most everyone else in town had changed their minds about Jory's experiment. Living as equals with equal freedom, the Borstal boys got along so well with their Oxford contemporaries that not a single one tried to "scarper" (run away...
Last week a persistent scientist named Edward George Bowen was proving that rainmaking can be notably successful when conducted as a long-range program with carefully limited goals. As chief of the Radiophysics Division of the Australian government's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Dr. Bowen was put...
Bowen began a study of Australia's weather almost cloud by cloud. He dispensed his silver iodide from generators on airplane's wingtips, learned by repeated experiment what kinds of clouds could be wrung out. Then, backed by the Australian government, he started a long series of carefully...