Word: content
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps that Yalie wasn't thinking simply in terms of scores, but if he still Considers this THE GAME, he should be content with...
...this amusing effort with considerable anticipation and urge one and all to be similarly on the look-out. It should be good for a few laughs, but actually, if we know the News, the plan will fall through at the last minute, and we'll have to be content, with the usual, dry Yalie Dailie fare...
...contrast with Russian schools is staggering. In the Russian primary and secondary schools there is a standard nationwide curriculum. Children too dull to pass get shifted to vocational schools. The exceptionally bright are put into special schools attached to the universities. Scientific content of the standard curriculum: mathematics through trigonometry, five years of physics, four years of chemistry, general science (mostly natural history) in every grade beginning with the fourth. Warns AEC Chairman Lewis Strauss: "I can learn of no public high school in our country where a student obtains so thorough a preparation in science and mathematics, even...
...youth has grown strong and vigorous under every conceivable circumstance. But we have consistently tended to confuse luck with talent, and have been satisfied to rest on our big oars, failing to see that the sea could get rougher. The nation, swollen with pride of accomplishment, has been content to play the strapping fair-haired boy, stepping in to protect weaklings from bullies. We have sat in self-righteous judgement on the world's felons, and with our Big Stick have meted out punishment where it was necessary...
...content with keeping Mochtar Lubis out of circulation-and out of print-Sukarno's government has shut down his crusading paper three times in less than a year. From the day of Lubis' arrest, anti-Communist Indonesia Raya (circ. 40,000), the nation's leading independent daily, started carrying a Page One box each morning reminding readers of its editor's arbitrary imprisonment. Ordered last month to drop the box, Raya pointedly substituted three inches of white space, plus another big gap where it would normally have carried an editorial explaining the omission...