Word: compacts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cobalt bomb is 25 times as powerful as the world's biggest radium units (one at Manhattan's Roosevelt Hospital, the other in Belgium), and yet so compact that its rays are easily focused on a small area of the patient's body. And Cobalt 60 is cheap: $17,200 for London's healing metal, whereas the radium equivalent could cost $25 million...
...author deals more specifically with the role of researcher and teacher. The scholars "have constructed an appealing and compact philosophical package (academic freedom), labeled it truth, and tossed it for enshrinement to the undiscriminating fellow, the liberal... he (the scholar) distends the protective cloak of research to include his activities as a teacher, thereby insuring himself license in the laboratory, which is right and proper, and license in the classroom, which is wrong and improper." Defending the rights of the majority, and assuming that Yale graduates are predominantly Christians and capitalists. Buckley further maintains that Yale must teach the ideologies...
...Later, she added regular articles on marriage problems and housing ("for they all affect children, too"), children's books (which are pretested on young readers), movies and records. Editor Littledale also keeps a supervisory finger on Parents' byproduct publications: Children's Digest, 21 (for young men), Compact (for girls), Your New Baby and Baby Care Manual (for new mothers...
...Tito and his comrades of World War II days who are now government officials, sitting on the island in bunkhouse familiarity swapping crackerbarrel jokes and war memories. Bevan pooh-poohed the idea that Tito, approaching 60 and recovering from an abdominal operation, was past his prime. "His tanned, compact figure might have been that of a man twenty years younger...
Going into its twenty-sixth year of publication, the compact pocket-size Guide compresses the opinions of this year's sophomore class on every course regularly open to Freshmen...