Word: persons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Output per farm worker in the U.S. has been multiplied 2½ times in the past 50 years. In 1787 it took 19 American farm people to support one other person, in addition to feeding themselves. Nowadays 19 farm people can support themselves, 56 other Americans and ten persons in other countries...
...Agricultural Research Administration, figured how much food the world could produce if it really tried. As a mark to shoot at, he took an estimate by the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) of how much food it would take to give every person living in 1960 an "adequate diet" (about what Americans get). By 1960, FAO believes, there will be 2,250 million people on the planet (other experts consider this estimate high). They will need 21% more cereals than the 1936-39 average, 46% more meat, twice as much milk...
...Harvard, Oppenheimer sought out and apprenticed himself to two great teachers: Physicist Percy Williams Bridgman and the late Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead. He had already made an important discovery: the best way to learn is to find the right person to learn from...
...Bohr and Britain's Dirac and Toynbee, Oppenheimer hoped to work out periodic repeat performances, so that they would never wholly lose touch either with the U.S. or with home base. Said Oppenheimer: "The best way to send information is to wrap it up in a person...
...final blow was landed when the Lampoon started distributing throughout the Princeton stands the fake issue of the CRIMSON pictured above. Its announcement of the death of Princeton's Coach Roper completely took in the Princeton stands. And one person sitting in those stands was Mrs. Roper, who almost collapsed herself when she glanced at the bogus issue...