Word: contentively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...original educational idea has emerged from the current debate. The goals or proper content of a College education have not been discussed. The Faculty has not decided nor even considered whether there is any knowledge or experience that a college education ought to include. How despite this the Faculty can still debate what requirements to impose on undergraduates remains a mystery...
What was needed was a rethinking of the role of the College specifically in terms of the content and mechanics of education, and it is still needed. Where this academic thought will come from is not clear: there has been virtually none for the last five years...
...visitor to the U.S. since 1915 and citizen for the past decade, Duchamp and his second wife, Alexina ("Teeny"), nowadays play once a week at New York's London Terrace Chess Club. "Breathing is my prime occupation," he declares with a twinkle. "I am a respirateur." He is content to be a wry and impish commentator, and from his septuagenarian's viewpoint, he sees much to cheer...
Combining the latest in technology and content, foreign-language study has grown and improved. Since 1958, when U.S. public schools conducted 46 language labs, the number has soared to 7,000. Instead of memorizing vocabulary lists and grammatical rules, the student teen-ager puts on headphones, listens to tapes, and gets a result almost unheard of in earlier decades of high school instruction: he speaks and understands the language...
...most markets than the Northwest) and partly to take advantage of the South's rising supply of available timber, but it is a new technology that makes the move possible. New glues and dryers developed by the industry have overcome Southern pine's high moisture and pitch content, which made its wood difficult to stick together. Automated loaders and lathes can now handle pine logs, which are much smaller than fir, and peel off layers of veneer...