Word: equipped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yale affirmative team, debating in the studios of WGBH-TV, where judges watched in a separate conference room, consisted of Alex Seith, James Blue, and James Miller. They contended that a university had three responsibilities to its students: to provide intellectual and vocational training, and to equip them for their future roles in society...
Concluded the businessmen: the problem of Negro workers is no longer one of getting hired but of getting promoted. To that end, they urged Negroes to equip themselves for better jobs now open to them. Said RCA's David Sarnoff: "We have spent proportionately more time, effort and money seeking qualified Negro engineering graduates than we have had to spend to recruit young engineers in general . . . Negroes do not sufficiently seek technological careers...
...Lawn, one school is so crowded that it has even considered a triple shift, with first-graders coming from. 5 to 9 in the evening. Though Northbrook has managed to build one new ten-room school, it does not have enough money left over to equip or furnish it. Last year Palatine found itself in an even more embarrassing position: without enough money to pay its teachers, it had to resort to a sort of scrip that had not been used since the great Depression...
...farm economy. Since 1920, the number of U.S. farms has dropped from 6,500000 to 5,200,000, while the size of each has risen from 148 acres to an average of 215. The small farmer is dying out; the big farmer, with enough rolling, clanking machines to equip a tank platoon, has taken over his land, and farms it more efficiently In Iowa's Shelby County (587 sq. mi.) 138 farmhouses stand abandoned in the midst of fertile, machine-tilled fields...
Most likely candidate as proprietor of the pebble culture was Australopithecus prometheus, a smallish, erect-walking creature whose brain was just big enough to equip him intellectually as a maker of tools. Prometheus was plentiful in the Makapan region, but his remains had never been found with pebble tools...