Word: groundwork
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past but it is a long task. One need only look at this year's Freshman team to see the results of immediate contact with the new regime. Whether or not the rest of the season holds victory in store for him, he will continue to lay the groundwork for future excellence...
...restrict English 1 to men who want merely a general survey course touching on the high points and not spending much time on the bulk of material usually included in such a review. Similarly, advance English 2 for those men who have the groundwork and who want a highly detailed, painstaking course in English literature. This change would meet both demands...
President Eliot laid the groundwork for the modern American University, and the general change in educational policy which started with the adoption of Mr. Lowell's plan of concentration and distribution, is based upon it but that plan marks the hint of departure from the then prevailing system of university instruction. Before its adoption every Harvard undergraduate selected sixteen courses to fit his intellectual taste and comfort, but today a student seldom makes a move without consulting a multiplicity of divisional and departmental requirements...
...Quantum Mechanics, and among them none is more articulate, more authoritative, more sensible than Sir James Hopwood Jeans, president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Like a modern St. Paul, Sir James has taken it upon himself to preach the Gospel abroad, to explain the groundwork of theory which makes the work of Dirac and his peers possible. Last week appeared the newest Jeans book, Through Space and Time,* into which the 57-year-old astronomer and mathematician has packed the fundamental things 1934 Science knows about the Universe. Sir James has made his story so simple...
Such a list, valuable for general guidance, is of course only the groundwork of the Wine Gotha in which each subtle characteristic of each vintage will be described. Thus M. le Baron will write in part about the Bordeaux of 1916: "Good, complete without defects; will take a long time to become delicate but should become so. Very interesting to keep in stock...