Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sooner did Sputnik I go into its orbit last Oct. 4 than Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, orbiting in his own familiar sphere, ordered a full-fledged tracking of U.S. preparedness. Last week, gaveling his seven-member Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee to order for the first three days of the hearing, Texan Johnson tersely outlined the Senate's objectives. Said he: "With the launching of Sputnik I and II and with the information at hand of Russia's strength, our supremacy and even our equality has been challenged. Our goal is to find out what is to be done...
...influenced many enemies: in 1954 he did not vote at all on Joe McCarthy's censure, which was widely interpreted as ducking the issue in Catholic Massachusetts. Actually, Kennedy was on his back in the hospital and forbidden to do much reading; hence, he explains, he was not familiar enough with the facts to make a judgment...
...mathematics secondary school has nine years of one foreign language and six years of another. Yet many of our high schools teach no foreign languages at all. Some American high school graduates never get beyond quadratic equations, but every graduate of the European science-mathematics secondary school must be familiar with differential and integral calculus, analytic geometry, application of mathematics to physics and spherical trigonometry...
...full symphony orchestra (the Indianapolis) when he was still a knickerbockered scholarship student at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music. A local critic decided that his "assurance, ease and poise" were "a bit terrifying." The son of Russian-born parents, he followed a path after Indianapolis that is familiar to many another promising young U.S. soloist: special award in the Rachmaninoff Fund's nationwide piano contest, guest appearances with half a dozen U.S. symphonies, an RCA Victor recording contract. In the in-between years, when the glamour of being a teen-age virtuoso wore off, he dropped almost...
...understand philosophical formulations in terms of his special fields. The tutor and the student would be able to go more deeply into philosophy once they had an agreed basis of fact; and a division by fields would insure that the tutor is teaching a subject with which he is familiar and in which the student is interested...