Word: broads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...must, in general, be lauded. But not in unqualified terms, for it must be also recognized that there is a sacrifice involved. This sacrifice is a firm grasp of a particular subject. The proposed system tends away from a complete comprehension of a single field, tends toward the "broad knowledge of little depth" so feared and hated by the English Civil Service Examiners. Its danger is rank superficiality...
...load for tutorial. The tutorial staff must correlate the diverse courses which each student takes, must point out to him their relations and their bearing upon his chosen problem. If it fails in this, education becomes even more of a chaos of disconnected subjects. Required are tutors with a broad but keen grasp of the whole area themselves, and these may be difficult if not impossible to find, especially among the younger...
...Broad plans to check the aggression of the Japanese and the Rome-Berlin axis by cornering the world supply of certain strategic metals are being suggested to United States Senators and State Department officials by William Y. Elliott, professor of Government...
Approved by the Civil Aeronautics Authority last week was the second high-powered U. S. engine to be built inline, for streamlining into wings and fuselages of high-speed airplanes. Like the Army's 1,000-horsepower Allison (TIME, Jan. 30), which has much less head resistance than broad-beamed radials, the new Ranger has twelve cylinders in two banks. Unlike the Prestone-cooled Air Corps motor, it is air-cooled, has finned cylinders set head down below the crankcase for better pilot visibility...
...middle distances seem fairly well taken care of, with Frank McKechnie and Ted Meredith in the 440, and Bill Young, John Dane, Henry Stewart, and Bob Brundage in the half. Brundage, a recent convert to the 880, leaves the broad-jump badly weakened. Leaders in a large group of milers and two-milers are Bob Jay, Charlie Robbins, Fred Bradley, Sam Worthen, Dan Jones, Tom McElligott, Wally Fenn, and John Sopka...