Word: present
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Color-TV hearings before the Federal Communications Commission in Washington got down to figures last week. Radio Corporation of America's Elmer W. Engstrom. vice president in charge of research, cautiously estimated that color converters for present black & white receivers would cost from...
Singing & Talking. To her own present position, Margaret Clapp brings more talent than training: she was never a dean like Vassar's President Sarah Blanding or Bryn Mawr's Katharine McBride. But ever since her childhood, when she tried to tag after her two older brothers and sister as they marched off to school, she seemed to know what she wanted to do next. "She was always pretty," says her brother Alfred. "She always had brains, and she could always take care of herself...
...Wallace was one of the first to market a commercial strain of hybrid seed, but he did not invent the process. Many present-day methods of hybrid corn production can be traced back to the work of Professor George H. Shull around 1906 at the Station for Experimental Evolution in Cold Spring Harbor...
...present time more than 30 states have teachers' loyalty tests on the statute books. Massachusetts' loyalty oath dates back...
Griswold pointed out that opportunities for women in law are limited, and also that the School has to turn down many able men each year already. "It is our expectation," he said, "that we will admit only a small number of unusually qualified women students for the present, at least...