Word: successively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...theory behind American Research and Development is this: researches in complex industrial sciences which require much experimentation often bog down becase layman businessmen with venture capital, unable to estimate the possibilities of success in scientific projuects, shy away from them...
Last week the firm, American Research and Development issued a prospectus to potential investors which reported its success and the accomplishments of the 13 new industrial processes which it has financed...
Another First. Dr. Choh Hao Li, 36-year-old Chinese-born University of California biochemist, reported success in isolating for the first time the sex hormone FSH (for follicle-stimulating hormone). In the female, FSH stimulates the growth of follicles in the ovary and makes ovulation possible; in the male, it stimulates tubules in the testes that produce sperm. Dr. Li isolated it from the pituitary glands of freshly killed sheep. Since other researchers were looking for it, too, Dr. Li says: "I was damn lucky. I hit on the right method." With the same sort of "luck...
From the Revolution on, Pratt thinks, the basis of U.S. military success has been the well-tempered amateur squinting down a rifle barrel. "Don't fire till you can see the whites of their eyes" was plain common sense to colonials facing the parade-ground tactics of the 18th Century Brit ish army; later, as any World War II infantryman who sweated out the world's most thorough rifle instruction in training camp knows, the common sense of the 17703 became doctrine. Pratt leaves it to his publishers, in a jacket blurb, to add that "the national tradition...
Although he is himself a Socialist, Laski does not advocate a socialist platform for this country. Socialism, he feels, does not yet stand a chance of success at the polls in the United States...