Word: decent
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...answers are possible: either more about science as an enterprise and a method of thinking or more about a specific science as a body of knowledge. The first answer doesn't lead logically to a doubled science requirement; surely a student can learn the "scientific method" from a decent one-year Nat Sci course. The second answer doesn't lead to a doubled requirement either, but to one increased a hundred-fold, for there will never be agreement about which science everyone needs more of. Suppose the Faculty requires each student to take two years of biology. Will he then...
Coach Floyd Wilson will start his usual quintet of Merle McClung, Barry Williams, Keith Sedlacek, Gene Dressler and Leo Scully. Sedlacek, who has scored 425 points in 20 games this season, should break McClung's season scoring of 436 with a decent performance this evening against the Yalies...
...just the sort of decision to feed the growing public outcry against courts coddling criminals, and the New York Daily News was quick to complain about "judicial concern for accused criminals outweighing judicial concern for the rights and safety of decent people." In fact, the most serious cause for concern rested with the police...
...them; their spirit died, you heard hysterical laughter which made the Russians even more excited. Is it really possible to write about these things? . . . Isn't every word of this an accusation of myself? Hadn't I many opportunities of flinging myself between them and finding a decent death...
...documentarists (Michael Roemer and Robert Young), Man is a polemic that does not preach. To begin with, it is careful to state that the black man is no black angel. The hero, played by Actor Dixon with a knowing mixture of shrewdness and spontaneity, is courageous but confused, decent but primitive. When he brags that he is "runnin' free," he really means he is running away from the Negro he is and secretly despises; when the white man bullies him, he hates it so much he turns right around and bullies his own wife. For their part, the Southern...