Word: development
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...develop a rocket-liner to take some of us off into space, rather than a bomb to blow us into eternity...
...Navy's first nuclear depth-charge blasts at deep level to establish kill potential against deeply submerged enemy submarines, also at shallow-level to develop new-type attack against surface vessels. Target: a guinea-pig fleet of three destroyers, a submarine, a merchantman and ten barges...
Languages for What? Should children be taught foreign languages in elementary school? Only if two or more languages are spoken in the community, according to a report issued last week by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development of the National Education Association. In such cases, Authors Elizabeth Engle Thompson and Arthur E. Hamalainen say, the foreign language "should become part of the social living experiences in every classroom." But in communities with only one language "instruction to develop skills and vocabulary for all elementary school children in a particular language is without purpose...
...natural sciences should, therefore, institute courses which examine some particular field of general relevance in modern science using past developments to lead up to the central problem of concern. In physics, for example, a course in particle theory could be used as a specific standpoint from which to develop an understanding of the modern scientific method which has a far more general application than the subject immediately at hand. Similar courses in biology, chemistry and physiology can easily be envisioned, and they would serve a purpose beyond their theoretical value. They would enable the Committee on General Education to obtain...
...shop and cooking courses. A sample of the canons by which such schools are judged: "Is the control and atmosphere of the individual's rooms and classes based upon teacher authority or group self-control and group-defined standards? To what extent are opportunities provided for children to develop moral and spiritual values through the process of direct experience in working with each other...