Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fredrick Skinner, professor of Psychology, is developing in another project a "teaching machine" to help relieve the burden of elementary and secondary school teachers. His machine will probably be a device that will reveal printed questions to the student, provide a space for the student to record his answers, and then show the correct answer. The scoring will be done either automatically or by the student himself...
...California days, and made him executive assistant and backstop. This move was a lifesaver, for success had made Rossby increasingly individualistic. He was a wonderfully stimulating teacher, an inspiring leader, and he produced ideas at a fantastic rate, but he was also a poor manager. He hardly ever answered mail. Instead, he stacked unopened letters in a pile to ripen. When they were so old that their writers no longer hoped for an answer, he felt it would do no harm to throw them away. He cut classes, was usually stony broke, ignored university budget restrictions. Sometimes he would ring...
...before FPC for so long that C.M. & M. was faced with the expiration of its land leases upon which drilling had not started, thus might not have big enough gas potential to satisfy FPC that the yield could supply gas for a long enough period. C.M. & M.'s answer was to throw a $5,000 chicken barbecue last summer for Wise County landowners, and explain in neighborly fashion why the sales of gas on their land was being held up. The disgruntled voices of Wise County were heard all the way to Washington, and last week the FPC granted...
...concerned with God than God is with man," and cited Adam, Cain and Abel, and Noah as Biblical examples. "God in search of man is the great paradox of Biblical literature," he said. "God seeks us out by asking the Ultimate Question of us. Faith in God is an answer to the question. Thus God is not passive to our search...
...speaker asked for a separation of the "speculative problem of God's existence and the religious problem. While the speculative problems may find an answer in agnosticism, the religious problem finds its answer in faith...