Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will not in all probability find any rapport. While the story is not typical of those born at the turn of the century, (as he suggests, he "has always been a converted Pagan living among apostate puritans,") it has certainly many familiar threads for men of his temper and background. But for me, it is only a strange alien tale...
Since then the idea of providing training to serve as a background for Defense Department employees has spread to other universities--exactly as Leach originally intended. At Dartmouth, John A. Masland and Lawrence W. Radwar, experts in military history, are interested and plan to launch a seminar in the near future. Roger Hilsman at the Center of International Studies at Princeton envisions a seminar "soon." Ohio State University, which has considerable funds available for this type of work is also interested in establishing a program. Other groups at Yale, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of Virginia are also...
...study "Graduate Education for Women" was made by a facultytrustee committee which states that an ever increasing number of women are able to make "their maximum contribution" to society by continuing professional duties even after marriage. There is an increasing need for women with enough background of graduate study to do work in advanced fields, the committee finds...
Faced with the ambiguous yet strenuous demands of medical schools, harried premeds are often uncertain about the most propitious undergraduate preparation. Since medical schools urge a broad liberal arts background, and at the same time narrowly inspect grades in science, hopefuls cast about for the easiest way of satisfying these two divergent demands. Some of the more daring concentrate in non-honors in English, but most drift quietly into either Biology or Biochemistry. Both of these allow considerable freedom to take courses in outside fields, yet give the premed the comforting feeling that he can throw most of his energies...
...background of the terrorist picture there are the forced labor camps. Why kill opponents when work can be got out of them? Like the Soviet Communists, the Chinese believe in the theory of "reform through labor." Millions, including many with "suspended death sentences," have been trucked to railroad and water conservation projects all over China and to lumber camps in Manchuria...