Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Boyle's good friend Harry Truman last week again defended Boyle; but the President's view of the moral question involved seemed to be based on a different set of facts from Boyle's own defense. Asked at his press conference whether he thought it proper for a party worker to introduce clients to the RFC, Truman said that was O.K.; but it was wrong to take a fee for such a service, whether the party man was a paid or a voluntary party worker. In reply to another question, the President said he was under...
Electron Switching. The trick in color television is to make the electrons that represent red, for example, hit the phosphor that glows in red. In the Lawrence tube, the wire grid does this switching job. It is hooked up, through the proper electronic apparatus, to the signal that comes over the air. When the signal tells it that certain electrons represent red, the wires of the grid are charged with enough electrical potential to focus the electron beam onto a line of red phosphor. When "green" electrons come along, it switches them to green phosphor, etc. So, jumping from phosphor...
Discussing the World Conference on Freedom of Information, Chafee said, "The most serious controversy at Geneva concerned the proper method for characterizing the kinds of abuses of freedom of speech which might be penalized, if signers of the Covenant thought this necessary...
...Education program, which goes into effect on a full scale this year. She feels the program has three purposes: to help students to understand the world around them; to make clear the relation between the past and the present; and to serve in training the mind. She stressed that proper reading procedure should include the formation of individual ideas as well as assimilation of printed thoughts...
...greens in the daily diet. Incidentally and unwittingly, he started a booming business: every year Americans spend $250 million for vitamins (four-fifths of it for pills and capsules). Much of this spending, Dr. McCollum believes, is foolish, because most people can get all the vitamins tney need from proper diet. Elmer McCollum was a farm boy, born (in a sod hut) near Fort Scott, Kans. As a young man, with a Ph.D. from Yale, he went to the University of Wisconsin to work on cattle feeds. But the experiments were being made on heifers, which are unhandy as laboratory...