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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Artificial animal insemination is at least 600 years old-the Arabians used it in horse-breeding in the 14th Century and the Russians have used it on a big scale in cattle-raising since the late Tsars. But there has been little precise data on the results. Six years ago Dr. Bartlett and his group launched the first carefully controlled test of the economic advantages of artificial cow-breeding. It now includes 1,800 dairymen and 14,000 cows...
Comic books, the Journal points out, are so readable that" they become grand-scale teaching aids...
...west of Bhamo, British forces chased the enemy back toward Mandalay in a retreat whose scale suggested that the Japs may have decided to pull out of northwest Burma entirely. But the enemy troops facing General Sultan's men were fighting stubborn delaying actions...
...candidate's colleagues is not an innovation. What is new is the way his jury works. Guthrie's advisory committees of five will never meet except on paper, thus avoiding faculty politics and personal salesmanship. Committee members will rate the candidate privately, on a nine-point scale which evaluates, in order of decreasing weight, his: 1) teaching effectiveness, 2) research and publication, 3) university activities, 4) value to the community, 5) cooperation, 6) grasp of his field, 7) general range of interest, 8) current rate of professional growth, 9) recognition by his profession...
...this last point the Guardsmen were willing to rest their case before a nation which instinctively shies from total centralization and hates militarization even more. To U.S. citizens they trumpeted the warning of the founding fathers. James Madison wrote in 1788: "On the smallest scale a standing military force has its inconveniences. On an extensive scale its consequences may be fatal . . . inauspicious to [the nation's] liberties...