Word: effective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition, the purpose of the unusual award is to educate students in the field of mental health and to encourage them to pursue it as a career. Tests on volunteers will be conducted by a professional to learn why students participate, what they profit from their work, and the effect it has upon them...
...Temperance League plans to organize a campaign urging the Governor to veto the pro-peyote bill. "We don't think it's a good thing for the state," said the league's executive secretary, the Rev. Durward R. Trolinger last week. "Peyote has a narcotic effect; it causes hallucinations. It should not be legalized, even if only for religious purposes. If it's bad at home, it's bad in church...
...Ugly American, bestselling plea for a better U.S. Foreign Service (TIME, Oct. 6), the authors virtually ask that Washington send abroad platoons of everyday saints, preferably with engineering degrees. The idea was eagerly echoed and extended last week by a conference that in effect urged all American Christians abroad to act as missionaries...
...order to eliminate the power of the old school and undermine the domination of the pre-Revolution intellectuals." U.S. educationists who regarded the Soviet cockroach-hunting interlude as an honest experiment will find Hechinger's theory of planned school-wrecking hard to believe. But plan or happenstance, the effect was of a school system softened to pulp, then reshaped to the form it has had, with some variations, ever since...
...which visiting educators are taken-are planned for an elite class of students. In recent years only about 12% of Soviet students have graduated from the nation's ten-year (college prep) schools. And when Premier Khrushchev's learning-and-labor edict (TIME, Jan. 5) takes effect, the proportion probably will drop. In the U.S. 55% of the children who begin first grade go on to finish high school. American students most often are promoted automatically-although some schools, notably those in New York City, have begun flunking dullards again. In Russia a frightening series of 26 examinations...