Word: experimentation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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¶ Shelved, and thereby virtually killed, home rule for the District of Columbia, which has been governed by congressional committee for 70 years. ¶ Ignored Secretary George Marshall's urgent request for a three-year extension of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act, the nation's most successful experiment...
In the large, airy Comedor Popular (people's dining room)* off the Plaza Espana, in Caracas, diners smacked their lips over a favorite dish: rice and black beans. Their approval marked the success of a significant experiment. For a long time, Dr. Nacio Steinmetz,† a Polish refugee scientist...
Joint instruction has its roots deep in the past. Some one hundred and seventy years ago, a group of young ladies gathered in Cambridge to reap the educational benefits of Harvard. For more than a decade, this experiment meant nothing more formal than more or less random studying with the...
RKO's experiment in shooting chunks of Berlin Express abroad was part of the new trend. In addition to such Continental productions,** Hollywood expects to make about twelve A pictures in Britain, several in Mexico (where The Fugitive, The Pearl and Treasure of Sierra Madre were shot last year...
But most M.P.s thought the death penalty had little influence on the murder rate. Some recalled that objections like Ede's were raised more than a century ago to oppose the reform of Britain's brutal criminal laws. In George III's reign, more than 200 crimes...