Word: gooding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most young Indians are well aware that science and technical graduates now have the best chances for getting reasonably good jobs with a future. But even though India's handful of polytechnic institutes and the science faculties have expanded facilities to admit five times as many students, there are still too few openings. Under terrific pressure, universities have admitted some 800,000 more students this year than in 1949. But the "student indiscipline" that Nehru keeps inveighing against has grown more widespread...
...with her journalist husband as the first Greek citizen to hold a U.S. doctorate in education, Dr. Antonakaki took a job as adviser to the Ministry of Education and began agitating for a progressive school system in Greece. Like Xenocrates' shoe, she argued, the old system was of good, polished leather but it no longer fit the foot. "Now science has invented the machine which Aristotle sought to replace the slave," she said, and instead of segregating intellectual and manual skills in separate high schools, Greece should restore the classic ideal of "harmony," teach knowledge and technique to both...
...most of Blue Denim will not quite wash. All the good intentions of Producer Charles Brackett fail to keep the picture from looking like a rerun of an old Studio One Summer Theater. It is too often stilted, static, unreal, and riddled with tasteless jokes and cliches that would embarrass Helen Trent. It is also awkwardly resolved: the play ended with the girl surviving the abortion-and only then did the walls of noncommunication tumble -but the movie tacks on a climactic chase in the night, in which the boy's father snatches the girl from danger, then gives...
...first radars of World War II could detect invading aircraft (giving the R.A.F. a big advantage in the Battle of Britain), but they were not much good on smaller targets. Modern radar is vastly more sophisticated, and a wondrous new refinement is an eye developed by the Army Signal Corps in collaboration with Hazeltine Corp. It can stare through darkness or fog at a terrain of tangled scrub and tell if a man is crawling through it two miles away; it can look at a walking human six miles away and tell whether its target is male or female...
...fast as 1 m.p.h., the lowest speed that Tipsy 25 detects, but movements of his arms and legs exceed the speed limit. So they give a characteristic sound and warn the radar sentry that in the darkness somewhere two miles away, someone is crawling who presumably means no good...