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...teaching, at Harvard and at Yale, is based of the case system. Rather than memorize their way through a textbook, students have to think their way through actual court decisions, and the glean the points from them. At both schools many of the lecturers use the "Socratic method." In their classes, questioning student after student about a case until an answer is obtained...
...Desk, was asked last July to prepare this major study of the Russian economy, he turned first to TIME'S own extensive files on the subject. They are the repository of every hard fact that Ehlers and his associates, Mark Vishniak and Vera Kovarsky, have been able to glean from their painstaking weekly analysis of Soviet publications, official reports, government directives and statistics, from our correspondents and other sources...
...mind. Last week, researchers gathered at the University of Minnesota to celebrate the completion of a monumental work, The Biology of Human Starvation (University of Minnesota, 2 vols.; $25). The book satisfies some of man's hunger for knowledge about his hungering body and suggests ways to glean more nourishing facts...
...with some pungent dialogue and played as if it really mattered, the movie manages to keep its hokum fairly lively. Joan's fans will be glad to find that, for all her suffering, the wages of sin never loom quite as large as the dividends. They may also glean some thrill from the script's implied message: a woman's decision to walk out on a grubby home and poor provider is virtually an inalienable right...
...jail at Danbury in 1946 have any truth in them. A capable conversationalist, Curley can talk on almost any subject with the facility of a specialist, the gift of a retentive memory stands by him well. From a small amount of reading, he is able to glean and store a warehouse of facts; one of the reasons that he was so valuable in the national campaign of 1932 was because he gave such fine speeches extemporaneously...