Word: coring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Believing that the primary end of a liberal college is the education of its students, and that the core of a good education is a competent and experienced staff of teachers, the Harvard Chapter of P. B. K. questions strongly whether the recent termination of the appointments of ten assistant professors can be reconciled with that...
...they had understood, there would have been no difficulty. Lindbergh is a kind of man whom Americans instinctively appreciate and like: practical and resourceful, with a mechanical turn of mind, an extraordinary competence in his business, full of animal spirits, empty of all pretension, built around a steel-tough core of reserve and self-respect...
...discussion groups. Less than twenty men took the prize examinations. The public lectures were heavily attended, but largely by Cambridge ladies in search of culture. The open House lectures, aided by intriguing titles and movies, often drew more than a hundred undergraduates. But at the weekly discussion groups, the core of the plan, where physicists and philologists were to be inspired to search for the roots of American culture, attendance was very small: a nucleus of six to ten faithful students in each of the Houses. Nearly a fourth of these were concentrators in History and Literature of America...
Caught at the core of this rotten situation, students struggle to get into an "easy" section whose instructor gives a high percentage of A's and B's. Far too many survey courses have little check on that "easy" man or on his counterpart, the "hard" one. Marking is up to the discretion of the instructor, and since the personal equation is inevitable, rank injustice and disunity result...
Senate sentiment this week indicated prompt confirmation for the youngest Associate Justice. A lot of Washington's younger, less social folk, and proprietors of various quick-order restaurants, were thrilled to the core at the prospect of already knowing a real, live, Scotch-drinking, story-telling member of the Supreme