Word: discussing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conductor of the Eastman Symphonic Wind Ensemble, who records frequently for Mercury Records, Frederick Fennell, was on hand to discuss the new recording techniques and describe their value in developing the appreciation of music in America through the electronic marvels that were on display...
While sections in elementary Gen Ed courses may often mean a dull hash-over of generalities, their disappearance in upper-level courses leaves the student alone with his notes at the time when he is best equipped to discuss, penetrate, and challenge course material. It is not unusual for a non-science major to have three of four courses with little or no discussion available and then, for contrast, an individual grilling by a tutor. In short, by the time one is a Junior, one's ideas are one's own business...
...Jackson, Miss. House Speaker Sam Rayburn, a Texas Democrat who had spent years trying to make the Democratic tent big enough for both North and South, refused to discuss segregation ("I don't think it would be helpful to talk about it"), attempted to turn the anger of 800 fund-raising Democrats against Republicans. The Mississippians refused to be distracted, gave their biggest applause to the cry of State Chairman Bidwell Adams: "I want to tell the honorable Speaker and everyone else that I am not a milk-chocolate Democrat. I am an old-line Democrat...
...talks were a security-benefits re-opener of the five-year contract (to 1960), and the union wanted to discuss fringe benefits, including higher layoff pay. Instead, G.E. offered a new security-and-savings plan, based on a worker's earnings, to be financed by lowering automatic pay boosts. For every $1 contributed by an employee (up to 6% of his earnings), G.E. offered to contribute 50?, invest the money in G.E. stock or U.S. savings bonds. G.E. computed that a worker making $5,000 per year would have as much as $5,281 worth of bonds...
Four Nieman Fellows will meet next Monday evening, to discuss the position and progress of desegregation in certain Southern cities. The panelists will include Robert G. McCloskey, Chairman of the Department of Government, John P. Kelley from the Atlanta Journal, John L. Siegenthaler from the Nashville Tennessean, Philip Johnson from the New Orleans Item, and Perry E. Morgan from the Charlotte News. V. O. Key, Jr., Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History and Government, will moderate the discussion...