Word: present
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reimann tried once more: "All German parties [should] present a united German point of view . . ." Cried an old man from the back: "That's what Hitler used to present...
Hereafter, each name would be listed only one way in the phone book. But which way? That was left up to Calcutta University (which already standardizes its students' names). A faculty board found that the high-caste ancestors of present-day Mukerjees, etc., had all been imported from Benares 600 years ago by a Bengali king who wanted to increase the number of Brahmans in his realm. When the British East India Company came to Calcutta, the Brahmans' descendants flocked to work as babus (clerks). Their employers promptly shortened the babus' names and made them more pronounceable...
...have been made at Columbia's College of Physicians & Surgeons, Manhattan's Knickerbocker Hospital, the medical branch of the University of Texas, Jefferson Davis Hospital at Houston, and the Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Wake Forest College. Said Columbia's Bacteriologist Murray Sanders: "Up to the present writing we do not know what effect Darvisul has on human poliomyelitis . . . One thing is clear. The real job lies ahead of us and no one can foresee the answer." In short, phenosulfazole is still an experiment...
...cinch to be greeted with screams and derision." The cost of hauling scenery off to the warehouse, then hauling it back again two weeks later and putting it up, says Billy, is close to $4,000. "Why, then, wouldn't it be smart to present two operas a week instead of five or six? ... Why not play Carmen the first half of the week and, let's say, Der Rosenkavalier the second half? And ditto the rest of the operas in next season's repertory" . . . And when the season is over, "why not open the Opera House...
...finally won this longstanding argument is Geneticist Trofim Denisovich Lysenko, president of the Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Lysenko rose to his present eminence by being able to make his science toe the party line. Although Lysenko has gained increasing recognition in Russia, most Western and some Soviet geneticists have regarded his party-line genetics as scientifically naive...