Word: extended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...alternative advisory systems, though substitutes of a sort, hardly can replace the interplay between student and faculty which tutorial's old Oxford-Cambridge-type individual instruction could extend. At present the only departmental criterion of a student's aptitude and interest in tutorial seems to be that of grades--usually by means of a line drawn at the bottom of Group III. But letter grades and receptivity do not always walk hand in hand. The invaluable aid which face-to-face instruction can provide, especially in the social studies, should warrant placing tutorial on a voluntary rather than an academic...
...danger of war has not much to do with good or ill feeling between nations. For example, the chance of war-within-five-years between the U.S. and Russia was probably greatest during the era of good feeling in 1944-45, when the U.S. was making concessions which, if extended as the Russians tried to extend them, would have placed Europe and North China in Soviet hands. If the U.S. had waked up to confront Soviet power of that magnitude, war would have been imminent...
...life. Only through a lengthy process of trial and error methods, worked out by labor and management leaders in each plant or industry, will on acceptable pattern of industrial relationships be evolved. Nor will the goal be reached until both labor and management realize that they have responsibilities that extend beyond union members or stockholders...
...inconclusively with a welter of major & minor legislation, from service merger and rent control to a list of 25 proposed new holidays (among them: Grandmother's Day, Freedom Day, Shut-ins Day, American Indian Day). A new addition to Congress' agenda: the President's request to extend for a year export controls over 500 scarce commodities...
...stamped final approval on the bill by a 46 to 34 vote after a stormy session in which Tobey shouted that his own party, the Republicans, must shoulder the "blame" for failure to extend controls for a full year...