Word: cut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Students in French A, French C, and German A attend class four times per week, the additional hour being devoted to practice in pronunciation in the language lab. The homework load is cut proportionally. At other colleges using the direct method, elementary languages are often run eight hours per week, in order to teach a new tongue more effectively and speedily...
Murdock feels that this is the greatest threat to the Gen Ed program. He was pleased when the Corporation abolished joint appointments (like summer, because he felt that it would both reduce the chances of getting men who were not qualified members of their departments and cut down the feeling in certain areas that a few individuals were responsible for the department's work in General Education...
...Camagiiey province, where Major Hubert Matos, 40, has been boss of the rebel army. For months, Matos had been writing Fidel his misgivings over Communist infiltration in the Agrarian Reform Institute-and over illegal land seizures. Castro gradually shifted most of Matos' army friends out of Camagiiey, then cut off the major's ammunition and supplies. Last week, when Fidel's Red-lining brother Raul took over as Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, Matos quit in protest. "No one can talk to you on the Communism issue," he told Fidel in a final letter...
...lingering doubt as to why the late Philanthropist Vincent Astor cut his half brother, sometime Playboy John Jacob Astor, out of his will was cleared up by Vincent's widow, Brooke Russell Astor. Testifying in an examination preceding the trial in which J. J. will strive to get a slice of Vincent's estimated $120 million fortune, Brooke Astor told of Vincent's deep feeling for J. J.: "Nothing but contempt." Captain Astor, a Navy officer in both World Wars, regarded J. J., said Brooke Astor, daughter of a Marine Corps general, as "the most useless...
...lachrymose prose reverberated no more in Los Angeles, where the show was revived in 1933 at the small, stucco Theatre Mart and reeled on for the longest run in U.S. theatrical history: 9,477 performances. The play was a victim of exhaustion and the local fire department (which recently cut the Theatre Mart's top capacity from 340 seats to an uneconomic...