Word: fitly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rosovsky knows that educational leaders throughout the nation are keeping an eye on the great anveiling. This consideration, Pfeffer said, prompted the committee to design several new courses that specifically fit the Core's temets. In future years, as the Core fades from public view, the Faculty's critical approach to Core courses may fade. The Core might evolve--or devolve--into another Gen Ed. Pfeffer stressed. "Nothing is stopping the Core from deteriorating after this first splash. New courses must continually be developed--And students are one of the best sources for that task...
Kaufmann said the University specifically asked for funds to hire junior faculty in the humanities because the Mellon Foqndation has traditionally supported instruction and research in humanities fields. "We knew they had a long-standing interest in the humanities, so we tailored our proposal to fit their concerns," he added...
Still, who could say with certitude that Nixon did not look like a Chief Executive and that Kennedy did, or vice versa? Is a President clean-cut? Ulysses S. Grant would have fit right in at an Allen Ginsberg poetry reading. Trim? Honest Grover Cleveland's dreadnought corpulence might have served as a model for Thomas Nast's potbellied crooks. Is the presidential face august, humane, agleam with probity? John Adams might have been cast as Scrooge or a consecrated bookkeeper. John Quincy Adams looked incipiently satanic. James Monroe's bug-eyed visage might have...
...faces and physiques of the greats have lent contours to the archetype. It is premature if not fatuous to say that any man looks like a President before he has done the job. Sixscore years ago, many voters thought that one candidate was much too awkward and homely to fit the task...
...scientists, have found at least 20 neurotransmitters. Each of these chemicals has a unique molecular configuration. As a result, neurotransmitters and any of the chemicals that mimic them-work like keys in a lock. They can only fit into those sites, or receptors, on the nerves that are specifically designed to accept them...