Word: use
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...practical use of the process results from the similarity between the "dendritic crystals" formed and those produced when supercooled liquid metal solidifies. It is the crystalline structure of a metal that largely determines its strength, toughness, and brittleness...
Dean Bundy said yesterday that the departments of Romance Languages, Slavic, Germanic, and Comparative Literature, would move into Boylston. He said that the English and Classics departments, plus the Committee on History and Literature, would also make use of the building...
...changing technology the most basic research may prove valuable-perhaps even indispensable-for some new project. But Pace realizes that profits cannot be put off forever. Says he: "When our scientists begin to see a light, the planning people must show them how that idea can be put to use in the corporation. You must always tie research and planning together...
...elephants mean to Morel, so that his actions to protect them become a "hymn of hope." Morel hates those who have made a fashion of the safari-"impotents," "alcoholics" and sexually frustrated women. The hunters' bullets stay inside the hides of the beasts for years; wounded elephants pitifully use their trunks to plaster mud on the suppurating bullet wounds...
...other hand, growing technological improvement has created producing power in excess of demand. While price support has encouraged the highly efficient agricultural supplier, it has also kept large numbers of people "down on the farm" who would have been put to better use somewhere else in the economy. And their purchasing power would have been diverted as well. Thus, any discussion about "helping the farmer instead of eliminating him," to quote Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, should distinguish between farmers worth helping and those worth discouraging. The Eisenhower farm proposals can deal with both as painlessly as possible...