Word: dipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are 947 students in the biggest class at Berkeley. This sheep-dip style of education encourages short cuts: mimeographed commercial lecture notes (Fybate Notes) sell like Books-of-the-Month on Berkeley's campus. California does its best to break up, and to personalize, the courses. At U.C.L.A., one professor of history props up a seating chart of his 150 students next to his shaving mirror until he commits it to memory. But the university recognizes its limitations. Says popular Chemistry Professor Joel Hildebrand: "The big institution must be content to be a place of opportunity rather than...
...Service also has the use of the Employees Clinic on Holyoke Street, the use of the Hygiene Department Clinic at Harvardevens, and the complete pediatric facilities of the Massachusetts General Hospital. As a matter of fact, they can even dip into a drawerful of lollypops to pacify unruly clients...
Actually, the nearest many swimming candidates get to the water in preseason practice is the shower room, although some have been known to take a dip now and then on the sly. But this is unofficial and recreational--if pushing a kickboard for forty laps is your conception of a good time...
Before the week was out, Britain decided to dip into her own gold reserves (amounting, with other reserve assets convertible into dollars, to $2.4 billion). She traded gold for $80,000,000. But Britain, needing her gold reserves to maintain confidence in the pound sterling, was not likely to make major inroads into them for current dollar needs...
Despite the partial crop failure, the U.S. had the grain to help feed the world. But the Government did not like to dip down too far into the nation's food bins. If crops were bad next year, the U.S. might need its surplus for itself. Farmers were storing some 70% of their wheat to 1) keep out of higher income-tax brackets this year, and 2) get better prices later on. Some farmers were feeding wheat to cattle and hogs...