Word: gi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lamont's gift met a pressing need. During the spike in enrollment after the war due to the GI Bill and returning veterans, overcrowding became a serious problem in Widener, especially during exams...
...MIMID MINIATURE MINE DETECTOR With 70 million land mines buried out there, this sleek, telescopic diviner with its Miesian line couldn't have arrived sooner. Created by Gerhard Heufler, its carbon and glass fiber-reinforced plastic body comes in basic GI Joe green, weighs 3 lbs. and quickly collapses into a small backpack for transporting to remote areas. The controls take just a few minutes to master. This is good design with a good purpose...
...like its predecessors, an angry Jew from Newark, but his passion never really climaxes, and his understanding of the world never really evokes sympathy. This man, irate Ira Ringold, is a 1950s radio star who has never given up the Communist passions he picked up as an uneducated GI and whose marriage to a Hollywood actress, a closet Jew in thrall to her 24 year old harpist daughter, is a poor buffer against Ira's ongoing, subconscioussearch "for a way not to kill anybody." Ira wantseverything he does to be as big as his own temper,and I Married...
...plenary sessions at the meeting: "The Need for Expanding Physical Facilities," "The Challenge to Curriculum and Faculty: Revision in Teaching Methods and Shortage of Personnel," "Inflation on the Campus," "The Veteran Looks at Education" and "Breaking the Education Bottleneck." Central to these debates was Washington's new GI Bill, which did much to open up the nation's system of higher education to the middle class. In this legislation, service to country was honored partially through access to education. In the process, a mutual respect developed...
...fair that these ethnic groups which serve such a large portion of the student body see almost none of the money we pay in our term bill," says Sharon W. Gi '98, co-president...