Word: tools
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these are just about a third of the contemporary interests of the Center, which is currently best-known for its college drinking survey. The staff considers this student research of particular significance, because "it may present a major tool for the conquest of alcoholism, for it will allow follow-up research on individuals first studied at the beginning of their drinking history...
...able man except transport him into a temporary intellectual limbo where he finds it impossible to do the demanding work in his major field of interest until junior year. The general purpose of each requirement is wise and valid; but in practice the basic studies slump toward-mere tool training, the distributional program scatters toward disorder, and the system of exemptions give freedom for advanced work, but fails to ensure...
Handy Man's Metal. For home craftsmen, Reynolds Metals Co. has brought out a soft aluminum alloy that can be cut with scissors, trimmed with a penknife, or shaped with ordinary woodworking tools without harming them. With Do-It-Yourself Aluminum, available in 36 items -rods, sheets, bars, angles and tubing-any handy amateur can make furniture, metal awnings, tool boxes or storm windows and screens. Cost of materials for an average-size, null storm window: about...
...examples), medical science has a relatively new name: immunochemistry. Last week judges for the Lasker Awards recognized its importance by picking as one of 1953's winners Dr. Michael Heidelberger, 65, of New York City, for "decisive contributions to mankind in developing a new subscience. the precise measuring tool of immunochemistry...
...knows the appeal of luxuries from having been so long without them. As a boy in Montenegro, Savo tended sheep. After his family emigrated to the U.S., he had to take a job at the age of 16 in an Illinois coal mine. Following a stint as a tool grinder in a Detroit auto plant, he attended night classes at Washington University's School of Fine Arts in St. Louis, got a fellowship to Harvard. He had his first Manhattan show in 1940, and the critics hailed his down-to-earth pictures of Midwestern life as evidence...