Word: emphasising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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To make a start, Oakeshott in 1946 got a promise of financial aid from the local school board and reserved 25 places at slightly reduced fees (?226) for boys from state-financed primary schools. But of the 40 examined, only three could pass the entrance exams, with their emphasis on...
This whole problem boils down simply to the traditional policy of a lack of emphasis on speech. If a member of the faculty could be assigned as the Debate Council's coach and given time to supervise all its debates, as is done in the other Ivy League schools, most...
The combined charities drive, to which students will be asked to contribute at registration, is on the agenda for special consideration with emphasis on the Student Welfare Charities, which provide scholarships for undergraduates in need.
Thus the whole picture of Stanford life creates a situation precisely opposite to that at Harvard. Harvard's variety and emphasis on individuality give way at Stanford to an atmosphere that is responsible for the "Stanford spirit," an atmosphere of what some would call unity and others conformity
Reservoir of Beauty. On its advertising message of optimism and progress, U.S. business this year is spending about $830 million in magazines and newspapers alone. At least one-third of all the advertisements bought by that staggering sum are using models. The proportion is nearer half in beer, cigarettes, cosmetics...