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Word: generalize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...school's airy halls, white tiled laboratories and neatly planted fields, the faculty of 35, some U.S.-trained, conduct 64 courses covering everything from general farming to veterinary medicine and postgraduate research in genetics. Regular students, currently numbering 277 (including six well-chaperoned girls), pay only 220 cruzeiros ($12.32) a year for tuition, twelve cruzeiros (65?) a day for food. The ministry of agriculture makes up the deficit ($356,840 last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Kilometer 47 | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

Atomic Energy Commission Chairman David E. Lilienthal and General Lucius D. Clay shared the 1949 Freedom Award. Said Freedom House President and onetime Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson: "Each has had to overcome almost insurmountable obstacles, thoughtless opposition and totalitarian pressures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Brimming Cup | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

Army Chief of Staff General Omar N. Bradley, attending top-level military conferences in White Sulphur Springs, took time out for golf with two other big guns: Under Secretary of Defense Stephen T. Early and Air Force Chief of Staff General Hoyt S. Vandenberg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Brimming Cup | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

...Kaplans were told that three successful aortic ring operations had been done at Massachusetts General Hospital. They drove to Boston, with an oxygen cylinder on the seat beside Sandy in case of emergency (it was not needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Squeezed Windpipe | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

From his field headquarters in Denver Jim R. Button was deploying his forces last week like a general in pursuit of a highly mobile enemy. The enemy: billions of grasshoppers threatening U.S farm crops with devastation. Worst danger spots: large areas of Wyoming and Montana, with trouble building up in Arizona...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: War in the West | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

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