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Word: differences (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Does Russian football* differ from that played in other countries? Said the newspaper Soviet Sport last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hmmm | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

...teaching or learning the difficult business of educated writing, especially when it is fair to presume that those required to take a non-credit course would be the least competent students? Again, in what ways do the editors of the CRIMSON suppose that "a greatly expanded English C" would differ from the general aims and methods of English...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English A Chairman Questions Editorial | 3/9/1949 | See Source »

...wrote, "I resigned myself to a position of skepticism towards all philosophical systems and system-builders." He refused to be one of the men & women who try to "remake God and the universe in their own images." His own plea to philosophers: "Why assume that where two philosophies differ one must be wrong? Two pictures of the same object taken from different points can both be true . . ." Philosophy, he contended, was not a science, it was "a way of ... vision." It was that sort of vision that skeptic Morris Cohen tried to give his students...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Decide as You Go | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

...leading motive behind these post-war changes was the realization that there are two distinctly different demands for an introductory course in every department. The concentrator in that department wants the basic tools for future study, and the non-concentrator wants a broad picture and general understanding of the field. At many points these demands conflict; the usual practice was to ignore the non-concentrator. The Economics Department's solution to the problem is to divide its elementary course into two different types of sections--for concentrators and non-concentrators. Non-concentrator sections have eliminated such subjects as analysis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Double Standard | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

...seems to agree that the institution there (Framingham) is in an awful mess. But, they all add,what can you do about it?" he complained. He had opposed Dr. Van Waters' methods "in legislative hearings and from the floor of the Senate," but "no previous Commissioner has dared to differ with Dr. Van Waters. Even members of the legislature kowtow to her." LePresti's interest in Framingham was hardly limited to an investigation of the suicide. He felt that the Reformatory was a sinkhole of immorality and favoritism, and he was not reticent in telling readers of the American about...

Author: By David II. Wright, | Title: Six-Month Fight Ends In Van Waters Ouster | 2/16/1949 | See Source »

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