Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...justification for their choice will be administrative ability. . . . But is administrative ability a thing that, regardless of experience and background, can be transferred readily from one activity to another? . . . Would a successful college president be able to step into command of an army? I doubt it.*But even if such an interchange could be readily made, one must consider where . . . [it] . . . would lead. . . . We should inevitably see suggestions seriously made that heads of great corporations ... of large law firms ... be named college presidents. . . . And last but not least, public officials...
Yale's scientific program is designed to put in practice the warning Dr. Sinnott gave his fellow scientists last week: "The sciences must be taught not as a privileged and superior discipline but as parts of a great whole and against the background of all human knowledge. Only whole men can save the world today...
...February, 1946, Margarita joined, the Crimson football hierarchy in the capacity of backfield coach. His background, and unobtrusive cleverness qualified him perfectly for this vital position in one of the twentieth century's most complicated large scale enterprises. Within his 175-pound five-foot-ten frame d wells one of the greatest halfbacks in college and professional football history...
Even the concentrator in Romance Languages and Literatures would nevertheless profit from this sort of curricular innovation. Instead of becoming familiar solely with the background of his own special field within the Department he would gain a wide departmental outlook. Similarly the concentrator in other literatures such as English or Slavic might stand to acquire a valuable additional perspective on his own area of study...
...about in a Northwoods that would make a lumberman's mouth water, Bonge and the bears paw one another sufficiently to reach anybody's funnybone. Scenes of bears winding through a rough and tumble square dance to the yells of a hillbilly caller, and slapping their sweethearts against a background of valentines and fir trees, are all bright-eyed Disney...