Word: furthered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The reason for the crowd's reserve was obvious. De Gaulle was the first French Premier to dare even to appear in Madagascar in the past decade. The island's 5,000,000 inhabitants (who are divided into 20 distinct ethnic groups, but go by the collective name...
Three Added Years. All his patients, said Dr. Murray, were "terminal": all had received some of the orthodox treatments (radiation, surgery, hormones) for their types of cancer. Some had had every recognized treatment, and all had reached the stage where their doctors had abandoned further treatment as hopeless. In all...
The tiny faculty-last year it numbered seven-took on a challenging task from Mildred Mudd, who died last month (see MILESTONES), and her fellow trustees: to create a topflight college of science and engineering, and to build its curriculum up from basic science, not from other colleges' texts...
The Anglicans and Episcopalians, like most Protestant groups, do not share the Roman Catholic disapproval of birth control; contraception, they have long held, is permissible for both family planning and reasons of health. But the Anglican Communion's five-week Lambeth conference of bishops just concluded went a liberal...
The coming jet age will also bring a new safety problem: the possibility of failure of plane pressurization at high altitudes. As a safeguard, the Civil Aeronautics Board ruled last week that all jetliners flying above 25,000 ft. (and almost all jets will) must carry oxygen masks for all...