Word: approach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cover the distance which separates us from the advanced countries of capitalism . . . Look into everything, let nothing escape you, learn and learn more . . . We must study technology, master science." Today Russia graduates more than twice as many scientists and engineers per year as the U.S. So sophisticated was the approach of Communist bosses to science-particularly since World War 11-that they freed scientists from the Communist system itself, set them up in a never-never land of unlimited funds, limousines, dachas, and even-in the last few years-freedom of thought. The Sputnik I that came as a shocking...
...associate director of the University of California's Radiation Laboratory, has been called the "prize wild-idea man." Some prized wild ideas: isolation of tritium (used in thermonuclear weapons) and, with a graduate student, the discovery of helium 3 (1939); the universally used radar-operated Ground-Controlled Approach System for blind-flying aircraft (1942); a method of producing nuclear reaction without the presence of uranium or million-degree heat (1956). Born in San Francisco, the son of onetime Teacher and Mayo Clinic Physician (and now medical columnist) Walter Alvarez, he studied at the University of Chicago, switched...
...place of the "compartmentalized approach" of the Tutorial Bibliography, the Department will now stress in its General exams the "interconnection of periods" and genres in English literature. Some sort of short bibliography, "without hard and fast categories," will probably be instituted, he asserted...
Although these changes represent "a stiffening of requirements," they also provide for a "less mechanical" approach, Bate explained. At the present time, concentrators were required to take courses which would prepare them to answer Generals questions on individual periods of English literature, and these exams have frequently been tied to specific courses...
...difficulties cannot be solved in our own strength or in human wisdom. It is appropriate, therefore, that we approach our task in a spirit of humility, of penitence, and of prayer...