Word: breadths
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Important Nonmembers. All this moved one A.B.A. official to announce expansively that "we are truly representative of every lawyer everywhere throughout the length and breadth of the land." The A.B.A. does indeed claim as members almost half the nation's 265,832 licensed lawyers. Its representation ranges from 83% of all lawyers in thinly populated Nevada to only 30% in lawyer-crammed Washington, D.C. There, its nonmembers include three Supreme Court Justices (Black, Douglas, White) and Chief Justice Warren...
...there is also a second central element, and this is concerned not with the mastery of a particular field but with the problem of breadth across fields. Unfortunately, the term "breadth" is inadequate. It does not indicate specifically enough what the aims of General Education are. It also tends to convey the image of sweeping "survey" courses, the kind of course, indeed, against which the advocates of General Education at Harvard have so often arrayed themselves...
...breadth of its approach, the committee resembles the University Committee on General Education which wrote General Education in a Free Society, Sizer explained that, like the original committee, the Ed School group will have three main aims...
...concluding chapters, where the priest's doubts bring him close to madness, Golding's allegorical purpose at last follows him to expand the book's emotional breadth. By now he has dramatized the two opposite extremes and must show the priest's mind gaining complexity in order to illustrate a resolution...
First, PBK should explicitly and consistently encourage breadth of academic endeavor. The electors are often faced with choosing between the all-A physicist and one who has gotten all A's and a B in a history course. Since they may be assured that the physics department will reward the all-A man, they should make PBK one place (and it would be the only place in the College) where the experimenter is rewarded...