Word: discussing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...part of the post-Nixon new look in U.S.-Latin American relations (TiME, June 2 et seg.), the U.S. agreed to join an international study group to seek a means of ending destructive coffee price fluctuations; State Department officials were making informal, embassy-by-embassy visits in Washington to discuss coffee problems...
...Political Wheeler-and-Dealer Harry Truman, arriving in France for a short vacation, for once in his life refused to discuss politics with waiting newsmen, modestly placed himself in the scheme of things: "I'm just a simple retired farmer from Missouri...
...lies in the fact that the honors sections system offers the necessary advanced work for the more qualified yet causes no formal division between the bright and average students in any grade. The whole class is divided into heterogeneous "home room" sections which meet daily for attendance and to discuss student council business...
This is equally true of any other academic field, and there are certainly fields other than science in which America's anti-intellectual tendencies stand her in bad stead. A European quoted recently in Newsweek, said that he was genuinely surprised whenever he came across an American who could discuss modern art intelligently or indeed who could do anything more than tell him how wonderful things were in the United States...
This in turn inspired the more ingenious students to attempt to decipher the system, so only that part of the lesson they would be called upon to discuss had to be studied. Rivalry between students and tutors was keen, with victory in the long run falling equally to both sides...