Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...subject. It has been known for centuries that male stutterers far outnumber females (at the hospital the ratio is 5 to 1). But why? Some doctors think that it might be the difference between male and female sex chromosomes (which also influence vocal characteristics),* but they have never had any final proof...
Affirmative No. But the ban on "hard" liquor was one rule radio had never broken. In 1939 the 17th Annual Convention of the National Association of Broadcasters had even written it into its official standards of practice: "Member stations shall not accept for advertising [any] spiritous or 'hard' liquor." True to their pledge, the networks said no to Schenley. But their refusal somehow sounded as if they wished they could...
When he became president in 1933, Chemist Conant thought that he would never teach a class again. The atom bomb changed his mind. As wartime head of the National Defense Research Committee, he was horrified at the scientific illiteracy around him. Some of his like-minded colleagues, like Chemist Harold Urey of the University of Chicago, decided to spread understanding by direct political lobbying. Conant felt that he should carry on his own crusade in the classroom...
Sometimes in the course of a lecture, Conant grows excited about a point, paces about his platform restlessly. But he will stop for any hand that is raised, answer any question. After class he never rushes away, but chats or answers questions for as long as his students wish. "When he says 'Come around and see me,' " said one student, "he really means it- though I imagine he has plenty of other things to do." For Conant himself, such professorial demands are a pleasure. "Anybody who enjoys teaching," he says, "enjoys returning to teaching...
...Argentina's Chamber of Deputies, Radical opponents of President Juan Perón's regime had made some sensational charges-that Perón's police force, augmented by hundreds of ex-Nazi soldiers, was torturing and brutalizing political prisoners. But Neville's story never reached TIME, nor did TIME's urgent "What happened?" messages reach Correspondent Neville. Last week, the explanation came...