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Word: environmental (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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A more general trouble, said Chancellor Lawrence A. Kimpton of the University of Chicago, is that the educationists have so often distorted the doctrines of John Dewey. "Thinking begins, says Mr. Dewey, in an interest or a concern. Therefore, said the educator, our problem is to interest students, and this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: What's Wrong | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

PUERTO Rico, whose strikingly successful Operation Bootstrap has sparked a productive industrial economy that in ten years has brought in 500 new industries, created 80,000 jobs, boosted per capita income from $264 to $369. Puerto Rico's Economic Development Administrator Teodoro Moscoso emphasized that the "key" to his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Capitalist Challenge: PATHS OF PROGRESS | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

Some retentionists claim that the death penalty builds up some sort of "moral abhorrence" in the community for the crime of homicide, the supreme punishment stigmatizing it as the greatest offense. But execution is hardly a moral argument; ethical standards are the products of education and environment, not force.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Life For A Life | 10/22/1957 | See Source »

Hurtling unseen, hundreds of miles from the earth, a polished metal sphere the size of a beach ball passed over the world's continents and oceans one day last week. As it circled the globe for the first time, traveling at 18.000 m.p.h., the U.S. was blissfully unaware that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Red Moon Over the U.S. | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

The formal grammatical trappings that so often weigh down language instruction have been shorn away at Cornell. The aim is to teach the student a language not by making him analyze it, but by placing him, as far as possible, in an environment dominated by that language so that he...

Author: By Kenneth Auchincloss, | Title: Languages Program At Cornell Stresses Native Environment | 10/5/1957 | See Source »

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