Word: breadths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Camden, S.C. is an example of the new kind of industrialization. In 1946, Camden's townspeople grew curious when small groups of tight-lipped engineers, labor specialists, tax experts, lawyers and power analysts began dropping in from "the North." The visitors would take samplings through the length and breadth of Kershaw County, then fly mysteriously back whence they came...
Considering that its parents gave the younger generation few standards, few ideals, and an education increasingly specialized, i.e., without cultural breadth, youth's morals have turned out far better than anyone had a right to hope. Almost of itself, it has picked up the right instincts from an American tradition older than its parents: it wants to marry, have children, found homes, and if necessary, defend them...
...culture is typically narrow," Mills continues, "his imagination often limited. Men can achieve position in this field although they are recruited from the lower-middle class, a milieu not remarkable for grace of mind, flexibility or breadth of culture, or scope of imagination...
Today the return to the teaching of universal knowledge is well under way, and nowhere is it more visible than in the Yale of Whitney Griswold. It could be seen in its most obvious way in the breadth and depth of Yale's imposing facilities-topflight schools of law, medicine, divinity; the nation's oldest forestry school; the world's second largest university library (next to Harvard's). It could be seen more clearly still in Yale's whole interlocking curriculum, where political scientists and psychiatrists teach in the law school, physicists rub elbows with...
...Tutorial discussion, particularly when combined with the writing and critical analysis fo essays, does more than give coherence to a particular field of study; it can also help to give a greatly increased breadth of view and maturity of judgment...