Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very valuable, especially praising the thesis work done by honors candidates. But he emphasized that because of the introductory nature of most of the courses in the field, the non-honors concentrator does "not get anywhere near the frontiers of knowledge," and therefore does not have the deep background in one subject that is a primary aim of Harvard education...
...adopt a new attitude towards the amount of education required for professional scientific competence. While some men can be successful with only a Bachelor's degree, the administration feels more and more advanced training is necessary to keep up with technological change. The undergraduate will gain a broad background of scientific training, but only a graduate student will be able to develop these fundamentals into unique skills and ideas...
When Eva looks at an airplane in total darkness, the hot engine parts may show up yellow while the cold wings look blue. A heated house is visible against its cooler background, and factory chimneys stand out conspicuously with trails of hot gas. The heat-pictures on the film are bright enough to be photographed in black and white or color with an ordinary camera. A picture can be erased by heating the film momentarily and evaporating all the oil. In about two seconds the oil film forms again, ready for another picture...
...pageant of the passing 19th century. Across the stage in its course pass Daniel Webster, Andrew Johnson, Thaddeus Stevens, Anthony Comstock, Lillian Russell and Ulysses S. Grant. "The costumes," the authors specify, "should sharply exemplify regions, decades, and social circumstances. The variety of these against a more generalized historical background should offer a spectacle no more anachronistic than that suggested to the mind by the perusal of a volume of old photographs...
Against that background even anti-segregation newsmen feel that any great improvement in the coverage of integration will come just as gradually as integration itself. Says Colbert ("Pete") McKnight, editor of the Charlotte, N.C. Observer, one of the region's most conscientious dailies: "Northern editors try to oversimplify our problem. It just cannot be done. It will be at least a decade before many changes take place in Southern journalism...