Word: disturbingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...instructors the University would necessarily deviate from its policy of hiring graduate students, wherever possible, to teach the undergraduate sections. This policy, designed to give the students interested instructors and the graduate students teaching practice, has failed only in the area of elementary languages. Its abandonment there need not disturb its successful operation in other fields...
Such choices are not easy. The staff is under paid in a university accustomed to offering the highest salaries in its field. Not only does this disturb the librarian, but the continual effort to keep a capable staff is handicapped when some universities have a median salary $1000 a year higher than Harvard...
...when." said Evangelist Billy Graham, "because the holy Bible definitely teaches that Christ is coming back to this world! . . . First, He will disturb the economic life. There are thousands of economic injustices . . . Second, He will disturb the political status quo. The dictators, the aggressors, the crafty politicians and corrupt political systems . . . will be objects of His wrath. Third, He will disturb the social status quo . . . Fourth, He will also disturb the religious status quo. The most scathing denunciations that Christ gave 2,000 years ago were against religious leaders...
...most part, Britons, after thinking it over, were inclined to forgive Daisy. "Nobody who has met Frau Schlitter," wrote the Manchester Guardian, "doubts her enjoyment of the London scene and her affection for the English. It would be a pity if a slip of the tongue were to disturb−it could surely not damage−the career of her husband, who has created a wholly favorable impression here...
Apparently this solution has been suggested before, and rejected. Now the Administration has rejected it again, and from what we know of its arguments, they are specious. The objection is that when non-science students, who would be given the extended time, receive their blue-books, would disturb already-writing scientists in the same room. But there is no reason why a science student wouldn't benefit as much as his neighbor from seeing his exam in slightly more relaxed surroundings. And it would always be possible to admit the non-scientists to be admitted to the room 15 minutes...