Word: productive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Cornell for a history of baseball). But at its best, he writes, "the character of the work entailed in obtaining the Ph.D. from a first-class university calls forth intellectual powers of a higher order than does that involving the M.D. Although the latter is usually a product of exacting requirements, the work leading to it places a premium on memory ... In contrast, the Ph.D. requires the candidate to make a significant contribution to the store of knowledge...
...peso" accounting of his assets before entering office Dec. 1 and again upon leaving it. For Mexico he promised only a smooth bossing of the current combination of state and private enterprise. If he does as well as Incumbent Ruiz Cortines (who has seen the gross national product rise 40% and so far has ridden out the U.S. recession with scarcely a dip), Mexicans will be satisfied...
Three of the four yachts were newly born, built especially for this event. Each was the product of minute designing and craftsmanship. The favorite: white-hulled Columbia, created by Olin Stephens, yachting's most successful designer in the last 20 years. Columbia was skippered by dashing Car and Yacht Racer Briggs Cunningham (TIME Cover, April 26, 1954), equipped with Ratsey sails made of a special new synthetic and financed by a New York Yacht Club syndicate headed by Manhattan Financier Henry Sears...
...which had hit $25,000 a year on such matinee tearjerkers as Queen For a Day and The Big Payoff, because "we never traced a single sale to the TV giveaways." General Electric also is cool to giveaways. Reasons G.E.: "Viewers may be encouraged to try to win a product rather than...
Chance for Small Business. The industry is still so new-and there are so many aerosol products yet to be developed-that many small businessmen are pouring into the field. For example, an Australian shepherd wrote to Du Pont about the problem of marking sheep to determine which ones had been vaccinated. So Du Pont developed an aerosol marker. Several hundred shepherds wrote the company to praise the new product, and now one of them plans to market the sheep...