Word: broad
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Most important, the Nieman Office should strongly encourage imaginative and original study plans. The experience of Robert J. Manning, a United Press reporter and a Nieman Fellow in 1945-46, shows that a broad plan of study can contribute to late service in journalism. Although not a college graduate, Manning studied elementary Russian, Shakespeare, American literature, modern British and American poetry, anthropology, and several subjects in the social sciences. He is now Executive Editor of The Atlantic.JACK BASS...
...Congress, despite the President's quest for a broad consensus, the division of opinion to some extent has continued to follow party and regional lines. Republicans and Southern Democrats generally favored resuming the bombing, while Northern Democrats and liberal Republicans mostly hoped to prolong the pause...
...committee said it supported the railroad route, but did not want the opposition to Brookline-Elm to rise or fall on only one alternative. The second alternative, worked out in its broad outlines by the committee, runs along Albany and Portland Streets a few blocks west of the railroad
...known through the "Dick and Jane" readers, counts on sight identification of whole words, using pictures as clues, and brings in phonetics only gradually. The new method, without being a throwback to McGuffey, is centered on phonetics, freely uses picture clues and-most significantly-puts to work on a broad scale the theory of programmed learning...
...step-by-step procedure helps a teacher spot precisely what is puzzling a child-and the method frees her "to give such children help without holding up others. It also gives her a chance to cope with one of the most worrisome facts facing every elementary teacher: the broad range in mental age (at least four years in a typical first-grade class) among her students. But the real key to the program's success, in Sullivan's view, is that in his books "the kids were the authors...