Word: hatched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lessons that UNESCO and the Indian government learn from this experiment in the next two years are to be applied elsewhere in India as quickly as the means allow. The guiding spirit of the whole plan: Duane Spence Hatch, 60, UNESCO adviser, an enthusiastic, hardworking American...
Literacy & Progress. Duane Hatch began his career in 1922. He was a Y.M.C.A. worker with a new Ph.D. (in sociology) from Yale. As headquarters for his work, he picked the Travancore village of Martandam, in one of the most backward parts of southwest India. His mission, then as now: to teach the villagers how to help themselves...
...Hatch spent 18 years in Martandam. The villagers soon nicknamed him "Double-Your-Money" Hatch. They learned to breed the best poultry in India, instead of the semi-wild jungle fowl that laid an egg every two weeks. They learned to build roads, how to control malaria and cholera, weave baskets, rugs and rope. Instead of their sticky, grimy jaggery (unrefined sugar candy), Hatch taught them to make clean palmyra sugar to be sold at double the price of jaggery. He introduced scientific beekeeping, revived the art of kuftgari (working designs on iron and silver). At the same time...
...Hubbard 23 12 11 23 Greeley 23 7 7 14 Harris 13 5 5 10 Anderson 13 4 5 9 Bliss 17 1 7 3 Timpson 23 1 5 6 Burke 23 1 3 4 Carman 8 1 3 4 Sedgwick 19 0 3 3 Hatch 22 2 0 2 Wykoff 18 1 1 2 O'Brien...
Pappy's bugs are collected by canyon-tromping outdoor types in most of the Rocky Mountain states. In spring he ships them by air as far away as Detroit. As soon as they eat a few aphids, they begin to reproduce. The eggs laid by the females hatch into larvae that look like miniature Gila monsters and devour up to 50 aphids a day. In around 20 days the larvae are ready to reproduce, too. "We just plant the seeds," says Pappy, "it's the multiplication does the work...