Word: generalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eight half courses out of the nearly unlimited subject matter of the discipline and two half courses from related fields, which means most of the fields in the College, are required for concentration. However, the concentrator must be able to pass a set of general examinations including some anthropology sociology, social psychology, and individual psychology. These generals are not easy, but one half course in each of these areas should stand the examinee in good stead...
...department discourages undergraduates from concentrating in its courses, because it feels that men who want to work in this area had better get a more general grounding in the classics and history first...
Although there will be confusion in every buyer's mind for a while, the general effect of the two records is definitely good for the consumer. Both records have greater quality possibilities than old-type records, and they are cheaper. The Columbia record has the advantage of presenting classical music without annoying breaks. The competition between the records has proved a bonanza for the buyer with numrous price slashes evident everywhere...
...tell him that heretical doctrines were being taught. Joined by a teacher in Boston College High School, they next wrote a letter to the Pope himself. Then the four wrote to the General of the Jesuit order in Rome. Students in Boston College classes, they said, were being taught "implicitly and explicitly" that: 1) salvation can be won outside the Roman Catholic Church; 2) a man can be saved though he does not hold that the Catholic Church is supreme among churches; 3) a man can be saved without submission to the Pope...
Prices. Two more auto companies joined the price-cutting parade. Hudson Motor Car Co. shaved list prices by $15 to $100 (1% to 3.4%) in its first postwar reduction, and Britain's Austin Motor Co. Ltd. lopped off $75 to $200. Following its recent auto cuts, General Motors Corp. cut prices 5% on diesel locomotives ($5,000 to $8,200 a unit), the first general price reduction in the industry since 1939. Said G.M.: "Unfilled [diesel] orders are at the highest point in history...