Word: productive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...worth nothing that local administrators see a trend towards academic disorientation at Andover, a school which resembles Exeter in everything but intensity. Before the process proceeds any further, however, it is worth nothing that education is not Exeter's only product. There are few statistics, but they are revealing. Exeter graduates leave Harvard in larger numbers than any other group. They see psychiatrists in unusual numbers. Despite their preparation, they do worse than the average freshmen, placing only thirty percent of their group on the Dean's List, compared to a class average of forty percent...
...selection of canvasses now on loan at the Institute of Contemporary Art on the Fenway, though largely a product of that selectivity which comes of tasteful, retrospective vision reflects this policy...
After surging up a powerful 23% in two years, Canada's gross national product is beginning to falter. G.N.P. for the second quarter of 1957 was just even with the first-quarter rate in dollars (but down a fraction in real terms), and government economists think third-quarter figures will show a further fractional setback. The leveling off of Canada's long-lived boom last week sent jitters from Toronto's Bay Street to Alberta's unseasonably snowbound prairies...
...wonderful." As a boy. he grew mushrooms in the family cellar, cultivated molds in his mother's fruit jars. In 1929 the famed Pasteur Institute of Paris offered Biologist Bovet a job. By 1932 news reached Paris that Germany's Gerhard Domagk had found that a dye product, prontosil could be used to kill bacteria that cause common infections. Bovet and his colleagues at the Pasteur found that prontosil was "a clumsy, complex chemical," set about breaking it down. After months of night-and-day work they found the essential germ killer in it: sulfanilamide, first...
With the same energy, Bovet threw himself into work on a new problem. "I was fascinated," he says, "by the fact that in nature, in the human body, no product existed to counteract the excessive effects of histamine." These effects are allergic reactions such as hay fever and hives. From 1937 to 1941 Bovet did 3,000 experiments, worked out the chemical formulas on which are based most of the infinite variety of antihistamines now widely prescribed...