Word: core
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Labeled as the "core curriculum" the seven required courses belong to no particular academic field but cut diagonally across departmental lines...
...addition to this effort to integrate college work, the core curriculum aims at linking undergraduate work with practical affairs. "In our effort to preserve our scholarly detachment," say the Colgate educators, "we sometimes represent too completely the approaches of our academic discipines; we carry over to elementary work the accent of graduate study...
...trip to Nanning is good for the soul. The primary impression one gets in talking to people here is of the stupid, hollow nature of the great Japanese victories of 1944. Here in Nanning, at the core of the great continental corridor, lies exposed all the futility of what the Japanese tried...
...Core of the attack was the new U.S.-developed granular white powder which G.I.s call "fire roe." Mixed with gasoline it forms a jelly that sears and sticks to everything it touches. New instruments of war have been developed to handle the jelly-the M22 portable thrower with a revolver-type ignition system, the Ronson-type tank-mounted thrower, and airplane bombs ranging from...
...absurdity of a nation of China's industrial weakness attempting to support 300 divisions (the U.S. maintains only about 100). China's able Minister of War, General Chen Cheng, saw the point. Within seven months, from the amorphous mass of the Chinese Army a hard core of elite troops began to take shape...