Word: chronical
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...major author or a topic like seventeenth century prose, or the modern novel, half his group will be already taking a more specialized course in it or prefer to do so the following year. If this sort of duplication is pleasing to some students, it is a cause of chronic complaint to others. It might be that the tutorial groups could concentrate on different methods of approaching literature...
...time to read for the tutor; and the students' explanations usually have to do with the pressure of course work. This delicate problems appears less pressing to the student than to the instructor who has tutored for some years. But, from the beginning, it has always been the most chronic of all the difficulties in conducting tutorial successfully in the larger fields. By permitting the student to count sophomore tutorial as a course, instead of asking him to add it to a four course program, it is hoped to avoid embarrassments of this sort...
...departure for a series of conferences in Turkey, Greece and Italy, British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden was told by his doctors to cancel his trip. Reason: his chronic cholecystitis (inflammation of the gall bladder) demanded an immediate operation...
...there any foundation for belief in the spontaneous combustion of chronic alcoholics?" a correspondent asked the British Medical Journal. No, said the editor, Charles Dickens' case (Mr. Krook in Bleak House) notwithstanding. "There is no scientific foundation for the theory that hell fire is anticipated ... in chronic alcoholics...
...know whether these vocal objectors based their complaints on chronic faults in the tutorial system, or merely bugs a few years of operation could work out, so we took a poll. More than three hundred and fifty students in the five fields answered twelve questions on group tutorial...