Word: nuffield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Uive Kitzinger, politics don at Nuffield College, Oxford, provded a friendly foil for a summary of current Labour Party policies by Reg Prentice, a Labour MP. Both agreed that division of sentiment within the parties had caused the rapid quieting of the constitutional din following Suez...
...does TV really affect the kids? Not quite so badly as many parents fear, reported three British sociologists last week in a thick new book, Television and the Child (sponsored by Britain's Ford-like Nuffield Foundation). For three years, in five English cities, the researchers studied 4,500 children (ages: 10-14) who spent more time (an average two hours daily) watching TV than on any other home activity. Some of the conclusions...
Faint Whisper. The telescope is the baby of Dr. Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell, professor of radio astronomy at the University of Manchester. It was designed by Henry Charles Husband, and its cost (more than $2,000,000) was paid by the Nuffield Foundation and Britain's Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. Leading British companies vied to make the telescope as nearly perfect as possible. They succeeded so well that its moving parts (total weight 2,000 tons) sweep the great bowl across the sky as smoothly and inevitably as if the earth were moving...
Last week a joint committee of Britain's Medical Research Council and the Nuffield Foundation reported that in cases of early rheumatoid arthritis, the lowly and inexpensive aspirin (a couple of cents a day) can hold its own. In the British Medical Journal they described the treatment of 30 patients with cortisone for a year, matched against 31 on aspirin. Stage by stage, the two groups stayed even Stephen. At year's end, three-fourths in each group were virtually free of pain and disability, and almost half were able to go back to work. The tests have...
...Flying Mile." With the air of a man who has played for big stakes before, Sir William confidently predicted a rush-to-Rootes. In the first six months of 1953, 17,602 Americans spent a record $22 million on British cars-an increase of 30%. Nuffield made only a small percentage gain; the Rootes Group gained...