Word: productive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fine show, and Disney's techniques seem particularly suited to Barrie's nimble story. So those who have sampled the stage production will do well to savor the new product. Those who have never applauded for Tinkerbelle's life should brave the throng of popcorn munching gamins and see it before they grow up and it's too late...
French West Africa, ten times the size of California, fills the bulge of West Africa. Population: 16 million, including 62,000 "Europeans," and a colonial "elite," the product of the French policy of "assimilating" educated Africans into French culture. (French colonial officers may claim family allowances for their illegitimate half-caste offspring; some get allowances for 30 or more little half & halfs.) Resources: palm kernels, peanuts and Senegalese infantrymen...
...studied, in the 1820s,* they garnered many details of the mechanisms of digestion; in more recent cases they studied the psychosomatic relationships between the emotions and the stomach. But always the doctors had to deal with a patient whose feelings (and stomach reactions) were his and his alone, the product of all his heredity and environment. To find out how the stomach would work in an emotional vacuum-and thus establish bench marks for surveying emotional effects-they needed a patient with a hole in his stomach and no emotions. But where to find...
...construction of a model community on its 9,000-acre "farm." Left to the university by Railroad Tycoon Leland Stanford, the farm includes some of the richest land in northern California. But the terms of the university charter forbid its sale. For the past 50 years almost its only product has been hay. Now university authorities will let individuals rent the land on 99-year leases. They hope to see schools, homes, shopping centers and light industry take over most of the farm. Even with 3,000 acres set aside for its campus and adjoining golf course, Stanford expects...
...London School of economics, during which he acquired a pint-sized car he calls "the little Nipper." Miles came to roost at the Littauer School. In the last two years at the University, his thesis has grown, he says, to volumes of research and two pages of final product...