Word: background
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ford stated that his committee would consider the drop-off of science concentrators "in connection with other problems rather than specifically by itself." Another committee member, Alwin M. Pappenheimer, Jr., professor of Biology, added that it was very important for the group to investigate the scientific background of the average applicant in order to determine "where science fits into a liberal education today...
Mrs.Pratt and the admissions committee feel that statistics here would be "meaningless" considering the college's emphasis on a girl's background, record, recommendations and some "intuitive" feeling they might hold about a girl's chance for academic success...
Against the background of Mexico during the anti-clerical campaign of the 1930's, the last priest in a province fights his drunkenness and cowardice, all the time facing the choice between escape to freedom and staying on to minister to the peasants, who have stuck to their primitive Catholicism through years of socialist poverty. Twice he has a chance to escape: the first time he answers the call of a dying woman, and later he returns from across the border to the aid of a dying man, only to find that he has been trapped by the police...
...life, follows the facts. The account of the assassination relies on General Sanchez Salazar, Mexican chief of secret police, whose Murder in Mexico established beyond much doubt that the man who murdered Trotsky was in fact a Stalinist agent. Wolfe's picture is drawn against the background of what must have been one of the strangest households in the world-young bodyguards filling sandbags and filing correspondence for revolution's exiled royalty. About the house in Coyoacán, six miles south of Mexico City, was the sour smell of defeat and the constant whine of grandiose self...
...seminar for science news writers held last week at Harvard and M.I.T. was termed successful by Louis M. Lyons, curator of the Nieman Fellowships and head of the seminar. About 50 magazine and newspaper reporters attended the three-day meeting, designed to give them a background for modern science reporting...