Word: molding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...primarily the Harvard Foundation for Advanced Study and Research were cited by Johnson for their timely work in examining old concepts in world affairs. Johnson claimed that "there are many old concepts that no longer possess the same validity they possessed in the past and that nevertheless still mold our thinking about current world problems, sometimes to a dangerous degree...
Though thoroughly initiated by now in the academic world, Karpovich is by no means estranged from the expatriate community that he left in 1927. On the contrary, he is a recognized leader of that community, and helps to mold its opinions through his editorship of the "New Journal," an anti-communist magazine published in New York. In addition he remains in personal contact with many of the New York Russians (Kerensky visited him in Cambridge last month) and often meets fellow exiles in various parts of the Western world. On his last visit to Paris, he relates, it seemed that...
...Caltech biologists have been probing their own areas of the invisible. Geneticist Alfred H. Sturtevant described the linear order of genes; Calvin B. Bridges provided proof for the chromosome theory of heredity. In determining that genes control the synthesis of vitamins and amino acids, George Beadle discovered the bread mold, Neurospora, as an effective research tool. This has sped the progress of genetics a hundredfold, was partly responsible for the successful increased production of penicillin...
Reed came to Harvard already a rebel; his father, whom he idolized was a liberal crusading Western Marshall, an intimate of liberal writer Lincoln Steffens. At Harvard, young Reed's spontaneity, his free spirit, and his refusal to fit into the aristocratic mold for which his past fitted him, deprived him of much of the social prestige readily available to him. Although he became the Lampoon's ibis and gained entrance to Hasty Pudding because the club needed someone to write its show's lyrics, he could not win admission to the more exclusive clubs or to the Crimson, then...
...spending is an unavoidable legacy of tradition to which he is bound whether he enjoys it or not. Every night the royal board seats from 80 to 200 guests and retainers, where the King, a huge man, big of bone and body in his father's mold, presides with courtly grace. In the first year of his reign, he has traveled more widely than old Ibn Saud ever did. One trip south, which took him over some 3,500 kilometers of flinty desert innocent of all roads, was an astonishing testimonial to the durability not only of the King...