Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story broke in the familiar fashion. First came the excitable students, angered this time by a large increase in already exorbitant tuition fees. Egged on by their leaders, some of them Communists, they milled off to protest personally to the Education Minister, were stopped by police, who clubbed and tear-gassed them...
...soon as the indictment was handed down, it was criticized in the Senate by Kansas' Republican Frank Carlson, who saw more politics than justice in the Justice Department's suit. Said Carlson: "Those of us who are somewhat familiar with the campaign of the Kansas City Star against the Pendergast machine . . . could well anticipate this vindictive action on the part of the President...
...most college students want?' . . . Examination papers are marked, not in accordance with any fixed standard, but in accordance with a usual level of achievement; the amount of work required is fixed by the amount the average student does; even the words with which the average student is not familiar are edited out of the books he is given to read...
...Darwin's view, the human molecules have one fundamental property that dominates all others: they tend to increase their numbers up to the absolute limit of their food supply. This is the familiar thesis of Thomas Malthus, a senior contemporary of Grandfather Darwin whose gloomy predictions of starvation have haunted mankind for 150 years...
William L. C. Wheaton, associate professor of Regional Planning, praised the new Dean as "a very talented designer." "He is familiar with the school's work as a special lecturer and visiting critic in the Department of Regional Planning during the post-war years." Sert gave several lectures here...