Word: courteousness
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...become a major weapon in winning the battle for western technological supremacy; whether or not they will someday help equalize the supply of teachers with the demand; certainly that row of ten silent machines in Sever Hall is a harbinger of a nervous and not too brave new world.Pictures courteous of Psychological LaboratoriesThe Self-Instruction Room in Sever Hall. There are ten booths holding the teaching machines, some outfitted with indexing phonographs...
Achievement. "The thing you hear from most shipping people," says one U.S. observer in Cairo, "is that the old company was consistently arrogant, the Egyptians consistently courteous and helpful." Considering all the sneers at Egyptian ineptitude, the Egyptians have chalked up in their first two years a creditable achievement...
...eight panelists, who visited the Soviet Union this summer as part of the International Astrophysical Union Conference, agreed that the Russian people were "exceptionally courteous and helpful" and that the trip was a worthwhile venture...
...doubtless meant it then-that he had come to power to bring political freedom and a better economic lot to Egypt's miserable millions: he would be a benevolent dictator until democracy was possible. The hundreds of foreign visitors who met him over the years found him reasonable, courteous, smiling, earnest, the sort of young man who listens to learn. There he sat, charming, soft-voiced and plausible in his little Cairo office with the eight telephones. Whatever his radios might shriek, he was one Arab leader who could even talk quietly about Israel...
...orders forced him to move, Hollis 15 was the most famous address in the College. Once a week, Copey would read aloud to anyone who cared to climb the four flights of stairs, knock on the door, and wait for command "Come in. Come in." from the imperiously courteous dweller...