Word: growed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Telltale Tube. When videotape became economically practical a few years ago, some schools rushed to put entire courses into a can. Most have since found that students and faculty alike grow bored with so much impersonality. The common practice now is to use tape as a teaching aid-perhaps a 25-minute lecture on the central ideas presented in a classroom period or a graphic demonstration of key points, freeing the rest of the time for discussion. In an experiment at San Jose State College, half of the 1,200 students enrolled in a U.S. history course no longer meet...
...Splintering. But the theory rarely worked in practice. Before a potential hail cloud could be identified and seeded, its hailstones had already grown large enough to cause damage. The Soviet solution was to use radar to identify the cloud as soon as it began to grow hailstones and deliver the iodides to it within three minutes...
Most businessmen credit U.S. merg er makers with the invention of cor porate conglomerates - companies that grow by garnering others in unrelated fields. Not Britain's Leonard J. Matchan, 55, president and chairman of London-based Cope Allman Interna tional Ltd., who was in New York City last week to plug a venture...
Nobody really wanted the second half. After all, the Harvard soccer team led Boston University, 5-0, and it seemed painfully apparent that that count would only grow worse in another thirty minutes of play...
...never been much of a secret: Harvard is swarming with dilletantes. For these people the University created Gen Ed coursse, in which academic tablehopping prevents any student from suffering any one type of boredom for too long. When these students grow out of Gen Ed, they don't want courses, they want divertissements; and, like the dilletantes they are, they hate to be left out of a good thing. With only hours away till study cards can be handed in without enlarging the University's already bloated endowment, the Crimson offers a last minute shopping guide...