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Word: willingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since World War II, he noted, scientists working in the U.S. have won more than half of the Nobel Prizes in the physical sciences. But there are still too few people at work on basic research (fewer than 30,000, or 4% of U.S. scientists and engineers). What can be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Science & the State | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

Down to Business. If the Russians were eager to harp on the issue of inviting other nations, they were not willing to wreck the conference over it, and the U.S.'s Christian Herte>r, taking the chair next day, plunged straight ahead to the conference's real business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Around the Doughnut Table | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

"Cuba now enters the creative stage," announced Castro. "We must begin leaving behind the bitter stage of executions and punishments." Last week was the first since Jan. i in which not a single Cuban died in front of a firing squad. Castro also seemed more willing to quarrel with the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Creative Stage? | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

The crux of the matter is whether the residential College is willing to sacrifice a little convenience to make the commuter's education for more valuable. Commuting has become a convenient way to add flexibility to the enrollment, but it should also, as Master Leighton points out, be a real...

Author: By Martha E. Miller, | Title: A Home Is Not a House | 5/20/1959 | See Source »

"Peabody is not at all helped by the University in these essential renovations. We do this out of our pocketbook and on our own initiative. Fund raising is a difficult task but, if one sticks to it, eventually one finds the right person who is willing to pay for the...

Author: By Ian Strasfogel, | Title: Peabody Collection: Anthropologists' Delight | 5/20/1959 | See Source »

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