Word: experimental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The RFA program offers the Army a valuable chance to experiment trying out new concepts, discarding old ones. It should not pass it up. Successful innovations developed now might prove invaluable in an emergency. If men with higher aptitudes, for instance, can be trained in a shorter period of time...
...time-and public money. More often than not they drop out before graduation to take dead-end jobs, in a few years send to school another generation of hopeless pupils. But to some 450 youngsters at Manhattan's George Washington High School and Junior High School 43, an experimental teaching and guidance program offers a fair chance to complete high school, and for the brightest, a hope of going on to college. This week, after more than two years' trial, the New York City board of education pronounced the experiment a success, planned...
But if The Doctor and the Devils is an artistic, or at least a philosophic, failure, it is still an important event. (What I mean is, go and see it.) For Thomas, the most intensely personal of writers, it was a bold--and unique--departure into objectivity. It has none...
Over 1000 signatures, representing 95 per cent of the Yard population and 39 students in Dudley, approved the request for this new "experiment" in freshman parietals.
When India got its independence from the British in 1947, so did Sikkim. For a while the Sikkimese tried to run their own show. But one day in 1949, peasants in their high boots and yakskin suits surrounded the Maharajah's yellow palace at Gangtok (pop. 7,000), a...