Word: effective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...failure to have a course in Western history is indeed unfortunate. While Frederick Jackson Turner's thesis may not be in current vogue in the History Department, anyone interested in American history should be familiar with the Westward Movement. The influence of the frontier certainly did have a profound effect on American history; but many history concentrators graduate unaware of this fact. Several years ago a course was given on the literature of the West and South; it was also discontinued. At present, there is no course for those interested in either the Westward Movement or in the cultural history...
...Whatever effect the possible prestige of a dean of the College being made Master of Dudley House might have, he said, "men as men are still more important than titles." He said that he hoped he could prove his worth as the "neophyte Master," and that he would try to upgrade the respect of the Cambridge community for the commuter House...
...rebuttal, kicked off by Republican Olsson, began with, "Our worthy opponents have produced a symphony of Arabic numerals, which may have had a sleep-producing effect...
...fright was triggered by Washington's "massive compliance" in 1954. As Southern Congressmen cried havoc, the school board quickly zoned the city, ordered students to attend only the schools in their areas. Effect: integration of children at the same economic levels, regardless of color-the prevailing U.S. school pattern. Current racial makeup: five all-white schools, 20 all-Negro. 20 more than 90% white, 74 more than 90% Negro...
Physiologist Werthessen was doing experiments with baboons and their aortas to answer a host of questions about the effect of fats in the diet on the amount of fats (especially cholesterol) in the blood. In one especially tricky procedure he hooked up a baboon's freshly removed aorta with a heart-lung machine and used radioactive sodium acetate to find out how much fat is manufactured in the walls of the aorta itself. With a small branch baboonery at L.S.U., Dr. Holman was tackling related problems. Both hoped to get vital information with a direct bearing on human heart...