Word: best
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Laris, who had been heralded as one of the best high school milers in the country last year, justified the advance reports as he set a new course record in the rainy weather by chopping 36 seconds off the old time. Laris broke away from previously unbeaten Yardling captain Marc Mullin before the one mile mark and coasted home with a new record...
...Communists, he claimed, will never take over a well-fed and happy people. "Economically strong countries are our best bulwark against Communist aggression" he said...
While sections in elementary Gen Ed courses may often mean a dull hash-over of generalities, their disappearance in upper-level courses leaves the student alone with his notes at the time when he is best equipped to discuss, penetrate, and challenge course material. It is not unusual for a non-science major to have three of four courses with little or no discussion available and then, for contrast, an individual grilling by a tutor. In short, by the time one is a Junior, one's ideas are one's own business...
...independent and questioning scholar this is possibly best, since lecture material should provide an incentive to deeper scholarship. But to the unskilled or uncurious student, lectures form a mere skeleton of ideas on which the meat of reading is to be hung. Unfortunately, the American lecture system, rests on a disciple-like trust of the professor and lacks the gusto of an alert and slightly hostile listening body...
...good segment of the population, of course, is covered under one plan or another, the best known being Blue Cross and Blue Shield. But policies like these offer only partial coverage to those insured. Even after an insurance corporation has defrayed medical expenses, the remaining costs can very easily be staggering. Doctors' and nurses' fees, extended treatment or psychiatric care will impose expenses that can burden a family with immense debts. In addition, poor risks, like old people, are not covered under private insurance plans, and local or state clinic facilities are necessarily limited. Modern standards of social responsibility, however...