Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down peaceably with a Russian scientific delegation in Geneva to discuss the feasibility of nuclear test inspection systems (see FOREIGN NEWS). Secretary of State John Foster Dulles had ringed the meeting with the warning that the results would not bind the U.S. on any next steps, but the mere fact of the session was important evidence of an important new influence at work in the U.S. Government...
...modern science of genetics that some of its grand old men are still alive, and some who gave it form are still only middleaged. Outstanding among them: Professor George Wells Beadle of Caltech, who did most to put modern genetics on its chemical basis. Geneticist Beadle is a mere 54. In his working lifetime he has seen genetics grow from a small, rather baffled specialty into a central, exciting science that is drawing the rapt attention of chemists, physicists, mathematicians, even astronomers, as well as nearly every type of biologist...
This was no mere stunt; it had a purpose-to find out whether the chemicals in one larva's body would affect the color of an eye transplanted from another larva. It did not work, but Beadle remained convinced that the innermost secrets of genetics and of life itself must be approached from the chemical angle...
Trade with the Soviet bloc now accounts for 5.8% of West Germany's total foreign trade, but only 2.5% for France, 2.8% for Britain, 2% for Latin America, a mere one-half of 1% for the U.S., which does not trade with Red China. Easing the embargoes is expected to expand East-West trade slightly but not spectacularly. The real barriers to trade are the facts that the Communists often have not had the cash to buy or have not been able to sell what the West wants...
...self-inflated news commentator, free love, the power of mind over matter, and the flying saucer furore. The story centers around Kreton, a visitor from outer space who lives in the "suburbs of time," can read all the thoughts of men and animals, and considers our earth a mere toy to be played with...