Word: need
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...movement called "Eat Rice Without Charge." This seemed reasonable to Mao, but not to his father who, like other farmers, kept selling rice to cities despite the local famine. Young Mao read pamphlets about the Western powers that were dismembering China. He read books that proclaimed China's need to modernize herself. He began to cut classes and teach himself from books. The principal reprimanded him and Mao said: "Though it will interfere with my own study program, I will attend classes on one condition: If I ask a question a teacher cannot answer, will you fire...
Feeling the need to share his new knowledge with others, he inserted advertisements in newspapers inviting correspondence with fellow idealists. Four answered. Three of them later turned out to be "reactionaries." The fourth, a skinny youth called Li Lisan ("who listened to everything I had to say and then went away") was soon to become Mao's rival for the leadership of Chinese Communism...
...fields where college graduates can anticipate stiffest competition is engineering; close to 50,000 engineers will be graduated in 1950, but the annual replacement need is estimated at 7,000. Another is law, in which enrollments continue to increase despite the fact that many of last year's graduates are still not placed. Chemistry and psychology will soon be overcrowded unless the student has a graduate degree. The field of personnel work, and some areas of secondary education (especially physical education, social science and English) are also overcrowded. Professional fields where recruits are still badly needed: medicine, dentistry, nursing...
...minor operation, the staples are driven into the long bones of the leg above and below the knee, near the joint, where the bone grows longer. There is no need to try to figure out the exact time when the child's growth will end, Dr. Blount explained. The staples do not keep the leg from growing, but they slow the process. When the short leg has caught up, and the child walks without a limp, the staples are taken out, and both legs can grow at once. The staples may be kept in place as long...
Neumiller took over the big job just when Government and Army ordnance people were suggesting that Cat convert to ordnance manufacture. But Neumiller stubbornly said he knew better; the Army would need his earth-moving equipment far more than anything else he could learn to make. He was right. Cat turned out almost $500 million worth of equipment, including bulldozers. During most of the war, bulldozers were needed so badly that they had the same Double-A priority as tanks and planes...