Word: content
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this country, the Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory, was created here in the early Nineteenth Century. After a distinguished beginning, speech training fell into academic disrepute among American colleges. This loss of prestige was caused by the rise of the "elocutionary movement," which stressed speech delivery and overlooked content...
...owners of healthy dogs: they tend to associate their pets' physical conditions with their own. Fat and underexercised themselves, they feel what Manhattan's McCann-Erickson ad agency calls "a gnawing nutritional anxiety" about their dogs. When Rival accepted this theory, it cut down fat content and upped protein, last year racked up the biggest sales increase (total sales: $12 million) in the business...
...interested not so much in Rosie the prostitute, he explained, as in "Rosie, medicine for our big businessmen, who didn't visit her because she was so good in bed or so beautiful, but because they could unload their troubles, because she fed their ego, because she gave content to their empty lives...
...word "tutorial," the CEP offered as a replacement a program of dubious merit. Whereas the final status of non-Honors tutorial is still in doubt--since each Department will have its own way of dealing with it--it is at least obvious that in time some genuine content will be given non-Honors tutorial...
...June 30) may also have persuaded him that out-and-out annexation of other Arab countries is a poor idea. Provided that he can bring the rest of the Arab world under his sway-as he has already done in Iraq and Saudi Arabia-the Egyptian dictator might be content with a loose federation of Arab states rather than one imperial Egyptianrun nation. These were the reassuring possibilities...