Word: researching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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COMPLAINT: QUESTIONNAIRE RE CHILDREN'S APPRAISAL OF THEIR PARENTS; FACT: QUESTIONNAIRE WAS PART OF SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH STUDY NOT UNDER SCHOOL SPONSORSHIP. CONCEDE HOWEVER MISTAKE IN GIVING QUESTIONNAIRE TO PUPILS...
...have shown that radiation can be cut to one-five-thousandth of its outside intensity by 3 ft. of soil, 2 ft. of concrete or 2½ inches of steel. Hoegh hopes to find many a shield of that size readymade. In addition he will finance architectural and engineering research on methods of incorporating more sophisticated shelters into new homes and buildings. He would also pick an underground garage, school or hospital under construction in each state, put up the extra cost of adding shelter facilities, then urge local governments and industry to emulate the example...
...going out to write and raise a rumpus and things," said Lieut. General James M. ("Slim Jim") Gavin, 50, Army Research and Development chief, when he announced his retirement from the service seven months ago, after losing his battle to get a healthy boost in his 1959 budget (TIME, Jan. 13). This week LIFE published the second of two installments on Gavin's quickly written 304-page book, War and Peace in the Space Age (Harper; $5), a rumpus-raising attack on his old enemies and a sharp accusation that the Army is in bad shape technologically because...
Lucky Partners (NBC) caters to the home bingo crowd. Under the word L-U-C-K-Y appears a series of numbers. Questions come marked L3, C5, Y7, etc., each worth that number of points. Sample stumper ("verified by the editorial research board of the Encyclopaedia Britannica"): "What famous World War II general said 'I shall return'?" Home audience participation is invited by two of TV's living dolls, always present but rarely busy (they also serve who only stand and undulate...
...country today is in the crucible," said the first Burmese speaker, Maung Nu, secretary of the Burma Research Board, explaining current social changes...