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Word: growths (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Education program will get another boost in size next year, as two new courses in the Humanities, four in the Social Sciences, and one in the Natural Sciences will swell the total offerings of the program to 24. President Conant's course on the growth of the experimental sciences, formerly a middle course group open only to Juniors and Seniors, has been shifted to the first group and will be open to Freshmen as a full-year course...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Asks New Grading System; GE Adds Seven Courses for '48-49 | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

...Twist. A mountaineer, asked why he persistently tried to scale Mt. Everest, answered with some surprise: "Because it is there." The same answer could be made by many explorers. But with the growth of science, the most romantic impulses were given a stringent, practical twist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Out in the Cold | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

...shoe." Reuther disclosed that the CIO will "very shortly" speak up on foreign policy after re-evaluating its general political position in terms of the President's armament proposals. When or if Truman is junked by labor, the flux period that follows may well become Koy Chapter in the growth to stature of a bright young man and the latest "bright new promise...

Author: By Selig S. Harrison, | Title: Cabbages and Kings | 3/26/1948 | See Source »

...Human Growth calls a Fallopian tube a Fallopian tube. Through this film and question-&-answer periods stimulated by it, Oregon hoped to take sex education out from behind the barn and into the class room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sex in the Schoolroom | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

...Human Growth won enthusiastic approval. Of 1,131 persons polled, 91.2% wanted their children to see the film. A frequent student reaction: "Can we see it again?" Most surprising parental reaction: "Why wait until the seventh grade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sex in the Schoolroom | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

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