Word: inborn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gross, who pioneered the way for modern heart surgery in 1938 by performing the first successful operation on an inborn cardiovascular defect, is the first surgeon to receive the $2,500 award in the seven years since its endowment...
...triumphs of democratic, middle-class civilization is that anybody can be a snob about practically anybody else. In darker ages, one man's ability to make another man feel like an ignorant peasant was thought to be an inborn talent of the aristocracy. Nowadays, anyone can learn the trick, and there is no better instructor than Britain's Stephen Potter, a kind of arsenical Dale Carnegie and master planner of social insecurity...
...With the inborn shrewdness of the feuder, Bracken Lee has carefully selected his ground. He will run as an Independent, out of reach of disapproving Republicans at the state convention and the primary election, but accessible to Democrats of a mind to stop Watkins by stepping across the party boundary at primary time to vote for Watkins' competition. Both parties, said Lee impartially in announcing his independent candidacy, "stand for and support the same policy of high tax, waste and giveaway programs...
Perhaps it is true that the excellent teacher must have an inborn dramatic flair; nevertheless training in teaching would help even the reticent to improve their ability to impart knowledge. At present, teaching fellowships give the future instructor valuable experience. Making them available to more graduate students by shortening them from four to two years would be one valuable step in helping doctoral candidates develop teaching ability...
...tone deafness toward science in our .society at large." If the public had an ear for science, then the taxpayers would be more willing to support pure research and science education, and more schoolchildren would get interested in science. Like many gifted scientists, Teller believes there is no special inborn talent for science, feels that talent is basically intense interest. The way to produce future scientists is to get them interested in science early. "Ten years old may not be early enough," he says, "but it is certainly not too early...