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Word: skillful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world's undirected population explosion, concentrated among have-not peoples, hardly favors the groups "better fitted to direct man's future biological and cultural development," said Nobel Prizewinner George W. Beadle (TiME, July 14) at a Washington forum. Sure that men now have the skill if not the wisdom for "directing our own evolutionary futures." Geneticist Beadle raised an ominous question: "Can we go on indefinitely defending as a fundamental freedom the right of individuals to determine how many children they will bear, without regard to the biological or cultural consequences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: Citizen Genetics | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

...oldest independent nation on the continent. Membership: six European nations, nine independent African countries, and associates from colonial and trust territories. In a continent with a bewildering array of problems and a disheartening lack of experience, the commission hopes to help raise living standards by pooling economic information and skill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: Try to Be Happy | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

...banks, as well as the International Monetary Fund, announced a $329 million loan to Argentina. The loan soothed many Argentines, who tend to blame Frondizi for the discomforts of living within their means, but the program is not popular and enforcing it will take all of Frondizi's skill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: ARGENTINA'S CLEANUP MAN | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

...This is not necessarily a bad sign," Albert Haertlein '16, associate Dean of Engineering and Appiled Physics, asserted. "It is or greater benefit to the nation to have people in the fields they are most interested in." He emphasized that most students who drop engineering lack skill, not interest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deans Brooks, Haertlein Oppose Statement by Secretary Flemming | 1/16/1959 | See Source »

Perry explained last night that scores on Scholastic Aptitude Tests, which are for the most part "standard reading tests," have increased "enormously." This rise indicates skill in interpreting short passages, Perry observed, but it does not necessarily mean that students have the judgment and determination needed to complete a long assignment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Class Rate of Reading Shows Increase | 1/14/1959 | See Source »

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