Word: contented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Word of God, but American Lutherans believe it more literally. A joint commission on closer union ("pulpit and altar fellowship") had devised a formula which it hoped both could accept: "By virtue of a unique operation of the Holy Spirit, by which He supplied to the holy writers content and fitting word, the separate books of the Bible are related to one another, and, taken together, constitute a complete, errorless, unbreakable whole of which Christ is the centre...
...Plaster of Paris absorbs moisture, and the wetter it gets, the lower its electrical resistance. Dr. George John Bouyoucos of Michigan State College made use of this principle in a handy gadget which tells farmers the moisture content of their fields. Blocks of plaster of Paris the size of safety-match boxes are buried with wires leading to the surface. The wetter the soil, the lower the resistance of the buried blocks. Measurements can be taken by merely hooking the surface wires to a Wheatstone bridge, which measures the electrical resistance. By burying a number of plaster blocks...
Twenty-five undergraduates, chiefly Freshmen, trained for middle distance running under the direction of Coach Bill Neufeld throughout the college year. Every two weeks they ran on a tread mill in the Laboratory to test their oxygen consumption, lactic acid content of the blood, and general endurance. Careful check was kept on basal metabolism during the experiment...
...three schools (a high school and two grade schools near Hyde Park), he reaffirmed the meaning of education in a democracy: "In these schools of ours . . . the children of today and of future generations will be taught, without censorship or restriction, the facts of current history and the whole content of current knowledge...
...reaction against this educational specialization in American universities, Chicago and Columbia have set up survey courses designed to insert a minimum "common content" into the curriculum, and at St. John's College in Maryland the hundred-best-books course has been instituted. At Harvard the reversion to a curricular common denominator has had only faint beginnings. Two years ago a Student Council committee urged "the restoration of a liberal education at Harvard." Most striking proposal of their lengthy report was the suggestion that five "introductory area courses"--two in the humanities, two in the sciences, and one in the social...