Word: cores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sizes of their college--2800--and their graduate schools--500--and quick to say they wouldn't want it any other way. "We have consistently and purposely kept our institution in these proportions one official says, "because we are essentially a liberal arts school. Our emphasis is on the core philosophy of education and we feel that the core is in a small liberal arts college. We have no interest in spreading out our school. All that has been done since the war has been in the line of strengthening our existing facilities and staff...
...core of Princeton's educational system is the college, then the core of the college program is the humanities. "Here at Princeton," says Dodds, "the flight from the humanities has not occurred as it has elsewhere, Modern society has obviously been placing a premium on the scientific and technical aspects of learning and many universities have succumbed to this attitude. Here, the Humanists have never been defeatist. For this reason we feel a special obligation to them...
...Though a hard core of Scots insisted "No American is going to burn up Carnoustie," this U.S. champion shot a birdie to win the British Open...
...parched and dusty land around Isfahan on the other side, and issued an imperial decree: let the waters of the Karun be brought to Isfahan so that Isfahan valley may bloom. Thousands of peasants chiseled into the mountainside to cut an aqueduct, but midway they hit a core of hard rock that dented even the Shah's will. Work stopped...
...South Korea's 22 million people. In three years, 600,000 homes have been destroyed; because of a high birth rate and the influx of tens of thousands of refugees, 900,000 new or rebuilt houses are needed. Coal production is down 50% from prewar. Grain output, the core of Korea's economy, is off from 3,500,000 tons to 2,300,000. In a nation whose gross national product is $1.4 billion, property damage is estimated anywhere from $1 billion to $3 billion...