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Word: backgrounding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...split in purposes in American higher education stems, Finley proposed, from the dual European inheritance. English colleges provided the background of the university as a training ground for the future leader, while the Continental institutions added the idea that colleges should primarily be concerned with the professional expert...

Author: By Joseph M. Russin, | Title: Finley Comments on Dual Purpose Of College Curriculum for Students | 3/17/1962 | See Source »

...moving repentance of her life's love: "I told you once that I couldn't really regret the past. But now I do regret it, very much . . . Not all the long years of happiness together, of love and friendship and almost perfect companionship (in spite of its background) was worth while, it cost too much, to us and to other people. I didn't know that before, but I do now. And he had no life after it to be different in, and I have lived the greater part of mine. If only I had refused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Not for Burning | 3/16/1962 | See Source »

...Westheimer and Brauer agreed was "very difficult" to distinguish background from higher and noted that both were used as for placement in accelerated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Westheimer, Brauer Differ on Basis Offering Accelerated Program | 3/12/1962 | See Source »

...that Chemistry 11, with Chemistry 12, covers three in two, was offered for the first this year for students who had received a firm grounding in , physics, and calculus in high . The 25 students with the highest scores were chosen for the from the 50 to 60 with the background, Westheimer said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Westheimer, Brauer Differ on Basis Offering Accelerated Program | 3/12/1962 | See Source »

...still others said "Why do you ask?" (Frightened.) "Earl is not a place, It's a thing." "Is it a building here?" "Why, that's redundant." "Sorry. My history background is very weak." "What are you, some kinda nut?" "I don't think he lives in Cambridge." "There's no news today, huh?" "No, not off-hand...

Author: By Faye Levine, | Title: 'Duke of Earl' Mystifies College, Is No Puzzle for High Schoolers | 3/9/1962 | See Source »

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