Word: core
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More in the department's favor is its solid core of fine teachers. Singleton and Arnolofo Ferruolo give almost all the courses. Ferruolo covers the modern period, while Singleton, a fine lecturer, gives the Rennaisance and Dante courses...
...dying clamor of the Great Debate a final decision emerged last week. The U.S. Senate endorsed President Truman's plans to send four U.S. divisions-about 100,000 men-to Europe to form, with the two already over there, the U.S. core of General Dwight Eisenhower's North Atlantic Defense army. In doing so, the Senate approved the first peacetime deployment of a U.S. defense army overseas...
...already been cast, Cherington commented; only a hard core of isolationists remain. Indeed, he believes, that America's chief strength lies in having accepted the role of leader in the Western world...
Though 85% of its students are Roman Catholics, only a handful go into the Jesuit order. Courses in religion, required for Catholics, are optional for non-Catholics. But all students in liberal arts must take four years of philosophy, the core of the curriculum. Today, says President Gianera, Santa Clara's mission is just what it always was: "To give a sound Christian education to men who must deal with the problems of modern living...
Last week fire-breathing readers of the Times hotly defended the paper. "Our copy of the Times burns beautifully," wrote Lady Balfour of Burleigh, "and by its very quality can be made to form a hard core which replaces and saves wood. Mr. Allison should have his chimney swept...