Word: adaptions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Washington has never seriously attempted to infringe upon state control of the schools as delegated in the Constitution. Our country's huge size with its myriads of local attitudes and problems made it clearly advisable to leave education to those able to adapt it to the needs at hand. Today, however, the problem is not quite so simple. As the Nation has grown, education on all levels has become a highly complex and expensive process with a need to fit specialization of instruction to masses of students...
...trivision" negatives (as the Navy calls them) are reversed, the foreground appearing to be the background. But printed on special "trivision paper" they are startlingly lifelike. The process is not yet ready for demonstration. But Inventor Winnek and the Navy hope to adapt it to colored lithography and to movies, so that human beings on paper or screen will be almost warm with life...
...with the U.S. or Britain. But last September, when the Danes offered them a flat choice between full freedom or continued rule, the Faroese, unable to decide, turned down both alternatives. Last week they elected a new Lagting (local parliament) with instructions to work out some compromise which would adapt Danish rule to local conditions in the Faroes...
Bacteria multiply so fast that they can pack into a few hours or days the equivalent of thousands of generations of the higher forms of life. As the walrus has adapted itself to the Arctic and the cactus to the desert, the bacteria seem to adapt themselves quickly when exposed to the initially hostile environment created by the new drugs. In the last few months, bacteriologists have bred strains of pneumococci, streptococci and other common germs which are practically immune to the sulfa drugs, penicillin...
...senior honors candidates or to men in group III and higher. The implication here is that men of lower academic standing do not fully deserve or will not greatly benefit from tutorial conferences. Yet it very frequently happens that a man of vigorous and original mind is unable to adapt himself to the method of education by canned-lectures and hour quizzes. It is for just such a man that the tutorial system of face-to-face discussion may constitute genuine education...