Word: tools
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...U.S.S.R. machine-tool output, already double the U.S. volume of two years ago, continues to expand without recession worries...
Fanfani's Worry. This gadfly role has drawn upon Malagodi the combined fire of all Italy's major parties. The Communists rarely let a day pass without belaboring him as "a tool of big business." Amintore Fanfani, the busy little boss of the Christian Democrats, has publicly threatened to exclude the Liberals from future Cabinets. (Says Malagodi, chortling, "Fanfani's palms are sweating...
...mass of mu and pi mesons, and that between the mass of the proton and sigma hyperon. Each proves to equal TT divided by four; this produces a new constant (1.12888), based on the inverse of the square root of TT divided by four, which Grebe calls "g." This tool "opens the door," produces a periodic table of particles similar to Mendeleev's 19th century periodic table of chemical elements. To compile it, Grebe assigns g° to the electron and positron as his base. In turn, the various exponents of g for the other particles yield...
...Report, the Committee on General Education indicated a sincere concern for giving the generally educated student a fundamental comprehension of the natural sciences. Yet, partly through implication and partly through direct statement, the Committee withheld an important tool for the adequate presentation of the scientific method...
...mathematics is the tool of the natural sciences, and the fact that the Report neglected it to the extent it did indicates that the Committee was not fully prepared to put general education in the natural sciences on a footing with the other two divisions. The program in natural sciences is set up with such a low standard of achievement that a man can leave the College knowing a little high school algebra and plane geometry, having an idea of the biological developments through history, and nothing else. It is possible to graduate from Harvard with no conception whatsoever...