Word: basically
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...that many another South American was asking himself. The ambassadors' conference showed that Ed Miller and his colleagues believed in helping the "fight for enrichment." At the same time it was perfectly clear that, in line with overall U.S. policy, they also believed in the basic principle of helping those who could and would help themselves...
...basic technique was worked out at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research by a team including famed Microbiologist René J. Dubos and Dr. Gardner Middlebrook. Between 5 and 7 cc of blood (less than two teaspoons) are drawn from an arm vein. The serum (amber fluid) is separated from the cells and added to a specially treated preparation containing the red cells of sheep's blood. The mixture is kept at blood heat for two hours and then left at room temperature overnight...
Corncob Nylon. With its prize plastic, nylon, Du Pont had been experimenting at a Niagara Falls pilot plant. Object: to make one of nylon's basic ingredients (adipontrile) from a chemical (furfural) obtained from corncobs and oat hulls. This had proved so successful that capacity will be doubled this year, to produce enough adipontrile to use up 200,000 lbs. of corncobs yearly...
...concentrate on this aspect. The "Ink-blot" test, given to freshmen last fall, and the Proficiency Test for the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, similar to the Aptitude Survey, are both still in process. These four tests, along with the objective language examinations, have made up the basic pieces of research material for the Bureau of Tests so far, and will continue to keep the Bureau busy in the future...
More than any other sport, the basic philosophy of skiing demands incredible, child-like belief in self-torture. From the first day of a skiing career when one learns how to permanently twist his legs through a stop known as the "herring-bone" to the day when he finally succeeds in relieving himself by breaking them off leaping from a 60 meter jump, the skiier must be firmly convinced that permanent mutilation is not too severe a price to pay for a few days on the slopes...