Word: working
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...station includes 140 acres of what Duncan called one of the major collections of tropical plants in the world and facilities for experimental work. The other major purpose of the station is to instruct the graduate students who periodically study there...
...come from his novels originally, but through science and government, the subject of his Godkin Lectures. He was born in 1905 in Leicester, a provincial city in England. His family was not well off, and Snow made his way by his brains. He studied at University College in Leicester, working in chemistry and graduating with First Class Honors. His work was brilliant and soon took him on to Cambridge where he continued his research in infra-red spectroscopy and was elected in 1930 a Fellow of Christ's College. At this time, while publishing scientific papers in the Proceedings...
...gave up research and threw his energies into writing. The Search appeared in 1934, and the next year he had the idea for the series which has occupied him since. Strangers and Brothers, the first and title novel, came out in 1940, but Snow was already engaged in government work which had grown to full time and delayed the next volume until after...
Typical of such decisions were the choice in England and the United States to start work on the atom bomb, and the choices in the U.S. and Russia about intercontinental missiles. Snow's "parable," however, concerned the secret decision made in 1935 in England to develop radar...
Though composed almost entirely of juniors and seniors, the seminars still encompass only a bare 15 per cent of the 1000 upperclassmen not receiving departmental tutorial. The decision whether or not to continue them next year will depend entirely on "how they work out," according to Dean Monro, who is largely responsible for the institution of the program...