Word: smarted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...responsible authority favors use of LSD without close scientific supervision. On the other hand, no responsible authority wants to stop research into the potentially vast possibilities of LSD and other "mind drugs." New substances are already forecast, notably a "smart pill," derived from RNA, to speed up the learning process; this has given rise to the slightly uneasy crack that in a few years "people won't ask you what books you're reading, but what drugs you're taking." Some of the drugs may be bubbling even now in the retorts of Dr. Hofmann...
...goes up $40, amid promises that it will not rise again for at least two years. President Johnson asks Congress to phase out the National Defense Education Act, under which 700 Harvard students are receiving loans. Harvard asks the Office of Economic Opportunity for money to help poor but smart Cambridge high school students. The Harvard Student Agencies begins a $150,000 fund drive, and the Divinity School a $6.8 million...
...siblings [May 27]. It is all very wonderful to know the embryo can "click" prior to hatching, but I am skeptical of the click's effectiveness in communicating the time of emergence. The latter is based entirely on the period of incubation, which is never begun by a smart hen of any of the gallinaceous birds until the entire clutch is laid. Grandmother kept fertile eggs gathered from the poultry yard in a cupboard until she had enough for a "setting," which may have required several days. Then a "broody" hen was allowed to "set" on the clutch. After...
When Memphis Businessman Luther F. Matthews, 53, put up a glossy, 60-room motel in the heart of town seven years ago, the smart hostelry money had long since been out in the suburbs. Figuring that Matthews, whose business was parking lots, just did not know any better, some of the local hotelmen charitably warned him that he was bound to flop. Some flop! By its second day, Matthews' Downtowner Motor Inn was filled to capacity, and this week in Muskegon, Mich., Matthews opens his 66th motor inn. Plans are for a new one about every nine days...
CHARLES N. SMART...