Word: experimentation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Old Guard thought they now had a mandate. Only in 1946, they said, had the issue been clearly drawn against the New Deal, and in 1946 the Republicans had won. Some talked of reviving their congressional coalition with conservative Southern Democrats-a set of obstructionists whom Harry Truman had...
On the Beam. Bradley's job was terrifyingly simple. As one of the doctors attached to the Bikini experiment, he had to go into the bomb region with Geiger counters and other instruments, and tell the Army & Navy which areas were too "hot" to be handled safely by their...
As a drug to cure human ailments, it proved worthless. The Upjohn Co. gave the new drug to the Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station at East Lansing to see what effect it had on plants. In strong solutions, it killed young bean and oat seedlings. Apparently actidione was good for nothing...
Yale had the same problems. Harkness, recognizing this, had tried to sell Yale officials, headed by President James Rowland Angell, on the ability of the "college" plan to keep the advantages of a small college without destroying the advantages of bigness. But, it is believed, Yale distrusted the experiment and...
Ten years ago this fall five reporters, three editorial writers, and one editor came to Cambridge to start an experiment in education. They comprised the first Nieman Fellows--men who had won a year's study at Harvard "to promote and elevate standards of journalism in the United States and...