Word: breadth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mount Scopus stand empty. But below in Jerusalem, the life of the university goes on. Professors hold classes in rented storerooms and hallways. Scientists carry on their research in makeshift laboratories converted out of bathrooms. Students squeeze into the back rooms of 30 different buildings, scattered over the length & breadth of the city...
...philosophers, Phillip H. Rhinelander is a paradox of being and becoming. For forty-four years' change and diversity have been second nature to him. He is a philosopher turned lawyer turned administrator. He writes, sails a yawl, plays a piano, composes light operettas and teaches Humanities 4. Perhaps his breadth of interest is fitting, for as the new Chairman of the Committee on General Education, Rhinelander is at the helm of a diverse amalgam of courses that is the College's most important educational experiment of the generation...
...candidate travels hard enough, he doesn't need to speak above a whisper to be heard the length (96 miles) and breadth (35 miles) of Delaware. It's the handshakes that count. John Williams shook hands hard and beat his lawyer, Senator James Tunnell, by 12,000 votes, a respectable margin in Delaware...
...pieces and he was killed (TIME, Oct. 7, 1946). The first man to break through the sonic wall in level flight: the U.S. Air Force's Captain "Chuck" Yeager, on Oct. 14, 1947, in his rocket-powered Xi. *A wing whose thickness is small compared with its breadth from leading edge to trailing edge is "thin" aerodynamically, though its actual thickness may be large...
Concerning the general low opinion of G.E. sections brought out in the report, Rhinelander said that it is very likely that the problem is more serious here than in departmental courses since it is difficult to find section men with necessary breadth of knowledge for wide G.E. topics. He also pointed out that students must take some of the blame since they often fall to contribute to Section discussions