Word: coring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What is scarcely less disturbing is that there is in this group no common core of knowledge that should be in the firm and quiet possession of every person who lays claim to a liberal education ... a knowledge of American history, of American Government, and of the structure and working of our economy." In one entering class only 49% had had any course in American political history above the freshman level; only 30% had had any sort of course in English history...
...These percentages are depressing to contemplate . . . The absence of a common core of knowledge ... is still further underlined by the fact that 20% of this class had had no college course in American Government and none in economics. A further 20% admitted to no college course in English composition. Any encouragement one might derive from the robust percentages of those who had received training in writing is shattered when one actually encounters in mass the written work of law students. Even the most tolerant of critics will concede that whatever be the arts of which the students are bachelors, writing...
...completely new half course--History 138, "Civil-Military Relations in Western Society"--and Government 159, "Government and Defense," may be used to fill both ROTC and academic requirements. Along with "American Military History," regularly offered as part of Military Science 1, the new courses will form the core of the revised program...
When bluff, outspoken Australian Astronomer Richard van der Riet Woolley, 49, stepped off his plane at London Airport last week to take over his duties as Britain's new Astronomer Royal, he promptly let fly with some observations that shook space enthusiasts to their dedicated core. Gruffed Woolley, in response to reporters' questions about the prospects for interplanetary travel: "It's utter bilge. I don't think anybody will ever put up enough money to do such a thing . . . What good would it do us? If we spent the same amount of money on preparing first...
...removed from John Steinbeck's amiable guzzlers as Skid Row is from café society, and much more believable. Sick, filthy and brutal, they see in the circus a last chance to earn the price of a bottle. White or black, they are driven by a tough core of boss men who see that the circus gets set up, that the animals are fed, that the whole complicated, split-second job of keeping the show on the road is done at whatever human price...