Word: distortion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With so much money to give, a foundation can easily tempt a scholar to distort his work in order to be pleasing ("Of course," says one Midwest political scientist, "professors distort and tailor their project requests. They aren't dumb. If they know the magic words to say to the foundation boys, they're going to say them"). The foundation must also be wary of overselling a university on a project that it really has no business taking on. It must support group-research projects-for teamwork is the trend-but it must be careful not to slight...
Brighter & Brighter. By piling up the total number of applications, the ghosts tend to distort the demand for higher education. But the demand is nevertheless there-and it has already begun to change the whole sociology of U.S. higher education. With more and more students to choose from, the big-name campuses are becoming more and more selective. At Harvard the number of students on the dean's list has gone up from 27% before World War II to nearly 40%. Indeed, says Amherst Dean of Freshmen Eugene...
Russell Thomas' poem resembles variations rising from the title maxim, First Things Last. The poem does not get to you by images so much as in waves, amplifying the starting statement that "Seeing is better than believing." Once you have seen you can only go to distort the sight...
...variety of election-year questions-including his reasons, as a reporter put it, for deciding "to begin attacking the Democrats." The answer was simple. As always, his purpose was to state "the truth as I know it, the facts as I know them." Some people, however, occasionally distort the truth. In such cases, although he didn't personally enjoy it, it becomes "necessary to clear away this underbrush of misunderstanding...
...race which loses its history becomes a rudderless ship. That's the dangerous position Japan is in today. To get out of it, the Japanese must look facts in the face." To the local citizens who have always considered themselves heaven-sent. Takikawa bluntly said: "We will not distort or slant our findings to please you. If this sounds cold, it's because there's nothing colder than pure scientific research...