Word: latters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conant, former chairman of the National Science Board, which formulates Foundation policy, declared that urgently needed weapons must be given high priority, but that "this country also must remain in scientific readiness over a long period of years." It is in this latter phase that "the program of basic research to be supported by the National Science Foundation can be most effective...
This last office will cease to exist when Dean Bender replaces Richard M. Gummere '04 as Dean of Admissions and Scholarships, following the latter's retirement...
...first, a group of women seen by a nurse on the Champs Elysees, was weaker than the others. It seemed to me that three of the sketches included in this area, the nurse, a fashionable Parisienne, and a lavishly costumed fille de joie, lacked the authenticity of the latter portraits. In these parts Miss Skinner never quite came alive and the humor of their roles was not enough compensation for this lack of real feeling...
...remote-control apparatus until it can do almost everything. It can knock down, service and put together whole production units that have grown fiercely radioactive. Sometimes the human operatives watch the job through three feet of special glass, sometimes through periscopes, sometimes by means of stereoscopic television. In the latter case, they can work from miles away; the radiation-resistant robots will obey just the same...
Douglas referred specifically to abuses in the Securities Exchange Commission, the Federal Communications Commission and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. He was a member of the Falbright Committee which recently investigated the latter organization...