Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What is the goal of science? To blow up the world? If scientists mean what they say-and they generally do-scientific progress is within sight of that nihilistic goal, and may soon succeed in reaching it. Last fortnight Professor John Archibald Wheeler, of Princeton University, almost let this monstrous tiger...
...ardently pro-atom U.S. Army was mum on the professor's suggestion. If it does lend its B-29s, the U.S. public will probably not be told about it. And if an experiment succeeds in setting up a chain reaction, it is possible that no living thing will be around to applaud.* For, if the scientists ever succeed in pulling the trigger...
...party had no professional organization, no newspaper, no practical platform, hardly any funds. Only two months before the election did it succeed in setting up headquarters. Barely a fortnight before election day was its telephone installed. But it won close on 10% of the nation's total vote and is still growing...
...were on the alert last week against a possible mongoose invasion. The furry, weasel-like creatures are treasured pets of many U.S. soldiers stationed in Hawaii, where the commonest mammals are mongooses. Many a G.I. will probably try to smuggle his mongoose back to the mainland. If a few succeed, the effect on U.S. wild life and crops may be disastrous...
There was one of the 50 who earned no string of degrees, published no learned works, never became a department head or a dean. "I shall die an associate professor," said snowy-haired, 71-year-old Francis Charles MacDonald, A.B., last week. "I didn't succeed very well, but I had good...