Word: interpret
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Practical Chore. The chemists used every kind of modern apparatus as soon as it became available, but progress was slow. Then some of them turned to X-ray diffractions and called on an IBM 7090 computer to interpret their results. Finally, they found the long-sought formula which is unlike that of any other known poison. Then a group of chemists at Stanford University led by Professor Harry S. Mosher found the same poison in egg clusters of California newts. Both U.S. and Japanese chemists are now trying to figure out why such distantly related animals as fish and newts...
...chaotic, Latin-tempered regime. "We have no need to go around borrowing brains from anyone," said Castro. "Nor do we have any need of borrowing heads, bravery, revolutionary spirit, heroism or intelligence. We live in a changing world, and it is necessary that each country know how to interpret the Marxist-Leninist doctrine for itself...
Dogs on the Roof. Straus is fond of saying that "Macy's operates like a family"-and the store is certainly an informal, self-contained community. Among its 11,000 full-time employees are 4,828 modestly paid ($84.84 a week) salespeople, including 1,400 who can interpret in 42 languages, and 150 telephone operators who write 1,000,000 orders a year. Macy's also has a private police force big enough to protect a city the size of Des Moines; it is captained by an ex-FBI agent, who presides over an array of secret photoelectric...
...executive of the Berkeley Campus, it will be up to him to interpret and to enforce the rules governing student on-campus political activity. It was former chancellor Strong's assertedly rigid interpretation of these rules that brought him under fire from students and faculty...
...Attempts to interpret the results of the election as an endorsement of further Government intervention in agriculture are inaccurate and misleading." declared Charles Shuman. "Farmers," he said, "were influenced by the same overriding issues that affected the voting decisions of other citizens," namely, "peace and prosperity...