Word: developer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Often the blind develop a telepathic sense of touch. Mary McCarthy's remarkably cold, black-jettish brightness at socio-psychological criticism similarly seems to proceed at least in part from the lack of another faculty: the faculty which theologians still call charity. Nowhere, in the whole of the volume, does any character act out of genuine kindness, or even out of those uneasy spurts of selfless confusion which, in actual living, so complicate the moralist's task...
...bites a man, it injects into his bloodstream protozoa known as trypanosomes, which-for the tsetse is omnivampiverous-it may have picked up from the blood of alligators, hippopotamuses, hartebeests, etc. This parasite invades the human lymph stream, the spleen, finally the brain. At first, tsetse victims become feverish, develop swollen lymph glands. Gradually they fall into a deep slumber, grow delirious as the trypanosomes attack the nervous system and brain. Many of these sleeping sick men live for years before they waste away...
...Group V and below their first two years. With many men staying in College only two and one-half years and nearly all graduating after three, about one-sixth of the potential cums would be neatly eliminated, and the accelerated schedules of war-time will certainly not help to develop last year's high school seniors into Group II men over night...
...tremendous. This effect, highlighted by the world crisis, has been the result of two factors: the men The Fogg has produced and the men that have produced The Fogg. Through it courses, facilities, and above all its connection with the Harvard student body, The Fogg has been able to develop a host of professional and amateur experts who have been playing a vital role in art in America for the last quarter of a century...
...report emphasized the frequent lack of intellectual stimulation, which is essential if the tutorial system is to work properly. Thesis writing was considered to be an excellent method of helping the student express and develop his own ideas on a particular subject. "The challenge of different methods of treating similar materials, the challenge simply of dealing with a great mind rather than with charts and textbooks, should contribute immeasurably to this emancipation of the student from his specialty...