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Word: pioneers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Goucher College. Then he got a $1,200 fellowship at Yale Medical School and became the breadwinner. She worked in a lab for $600 a year, "feeling darned lucky because at that price they had so little string on me." In two years she used her freedom for pioneer work on microbial genetics, and found her research specialty -a bright red bacterium called serratia marcescens, whose color makes it easy to trace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: One Woman, Two Lives | 11/3/1961 | See Source »

...Hora, the company swirls up a cyclone in a hand-holding folk dance, then explodes in Kazachok-styled kicks and leaps. Here, and in a muscle-throbbing stomp set in the Negev, Choreographer Saddler rises above the dance-for-dance-sake motives of most musicals to salute the pioneer spirit. An artful change of pace from the robust to the exotic brings a Yemenite wedding ceremony, in which the color of spectacle-cloth-of-gold gowns, jeweled headdresses, a pinpricked panoply of tiny candles-is matched with the mystery of ancient ritual. The Broadwayward book relies heavily on soap operatics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Israeli Stomp | 10/20/1961 | See Source »

Howard H. Aiken, retired professor of Applied Mathematics and a pioneer in developing large-scale digital computers, was honored last night at a dinner in the Harvard Club of Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DINNER HONORS AIKEN | 10/7/1961 | See Source »

...Japan's Yoshishige Saito, 56, Best Foreign Painter. A pioneer abstractionist in his own country, Saito turns out paintings that look disconcertingly like road maps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Bursting Bienal | 9/22/1961 | See Source »

Died. Dr. Willard Travell, 91, indefatigable link in five generations of Travell doctors, a pioneer in galvanism (electrical treatment of muscle disorders), who lived to see his daughter Janet become the White House's first female physician; in New Rochelle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 25, 1961 | 8/25/1961 | See Source »

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