Word: failed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Monro added that students not only fail often to think for themselves, but also fail to discover that this process is "fun." He praised the teaching methods of David Riesman, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences. Using his "Chicago method," Riesman conducts panel discussions in class and encourages his students to analyze their cultural environment...
...fail to see what students would be kept out by such admission requirements," Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, commented. Jones asserted that "any student intelligent enough to come to Harvard should be able to pass such tests...
Cheerful, chunky (5 ft. 5 in., 196 lbs.) Democrat DiSalle, a man of notable affability even in his harried term (1950-52) as President Truman's Price Administrator, is determined not to fail. Already he has irritated educators, businessmen and politicians with a tighten-up-and-tax budget. And last week he incurred the wrath of Ohio's powerful A.F.L.-C.I.O., which backed him heavily in his campaign last fall...
...covers only two), had even picked men of the same eye and hair color and body build. Beyond that, he could only guess. Perhaps it was because his patients had been healthy before the accident, then had suddenly received such a whopping jolt of radiation that it could not fail to knock out their marrow function-including antibody formation. Frozen marrow keeps for at least six months; if it can be kept longer, general bone-marrow banks may become practical. In any case, Dr. Jammet suggested, people working around reactors might have some of their own marrow removed and stored...
...should the South fail, it will face either the liberal Democrats or the unsympathetic Republicans. Neither prospect is very comforting to Southerners. A third party movement represents a desperate maneuver on the part of the embattled South. It would be a dangerous procedure, and failure could mean the end of conservative power within the party...