Word: developed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Comedor Popular (people's dining room)* off the Plaza Espana, in Caracas, diners smacked their lips over a favorite dish: rice and black beans. Their approval marked the success of a significant experiment. For a long time, Dr. Nacio Steinmetz,† a Polish refugee scientist, had worked to develop a vitamin-rich soybean to look and taste like the common black bean which is the chief source of protein for millions of Latin Americans. The diners at the Comedor Popular had eaten the product of his work without knowing that it was anything more than the plain black bean...
...group whose membership is voluntary, Cleveland admits, enforcing the code would be tough and perhaps impossible. Nevertheless, "let organized industrialists define economic abuses and act against them . . . develop adequate group controls in those industrial areas where real economic competition has ceased to exist . . . look beyond the short-run profit motive to the old but valid goals of true free enterprise. Until at least a start is made in this direction, the possibility of progressive leadership's emerging from within industry is very remote...
...always, winners of the honorary degrees will remain top secret until the last moment. At last year's program Secretary of State George C. Marshall and now Army Chief of Staff Omar M. Bradley received honorary Doctors of Laws, while J. Robert Oppenheimer '26, who helped develop the atomic bomb, won Doctor of Science designation...
...papers themselves. Conference groups, like every other educational device, would need good faculty men to make them successful, and in this case men of a particular stimulating kind. Were the conference group plan instituted, however, there is no reason to doubt that the departments could in time develop able young men for the jobs, as they did when the tutorial program began...
...secret war the country under attack might wither as a nation, without knowing it had even been sick . . . Those who watch vital statistics might discover a suspicious increase in infant mortality-for the year ending a year ago. New pests would appear that survived the usual sprays. Cattle would develop diseases the county agents had never seen...