incumbency discuss | |
| Definition: | (noun) The term during which some position is held. |
| Synonyms: | tenure, term of office |
| Usage: | During his incumbency, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt instituted the New Deal to counter the Great Depression. |
  Francis Harry Compton Crick (1916)While working in a research lab at Cambridge after WWII, Crick helped discover the molecular structure of DNA. It was one of the most important scientific findings of the century, and he shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work. He also clarified how cells use DNA to build proteins. During WWII, he was deflected from his original course of research after a bomb hit his lab. Crick later said he had been studying "the dullest problem imaginable" at the time. What was it? More... Discuss |
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beautiful pics! do you participate in Green Thumb Sunday? It is a lot of fun...
Ohhhh how well I remember your beautiful yard and gardens! :)
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