Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Maternity Leave. In Kansas City, Kans., after vice-squad officers found a half-full pint of bourbon in his beer parlor, Barkeep Floyd Baker was fined $200 for illegal possession of whisky, despite his testimony that he never touched the stuff himself, kept it on hand for his female poodle, who drinks it "just when she is about to become a mother...
...Economics Department is currently undergoing a crisis. It has failed up to now to accommodate both elements in a coherent program. The result is strikingly demonstrated by the flight of undergraduate concentrators from the field. In less than a decade the number has declined by over half; from 709 in 1949 to 340 in 1958. Although the decline may partially reflect a nationwide tendency, it also is the result of the confusion and frustration attending the undergraduate program here, as the instruction gyrates widely from verbal triviality to mathematical incomprehensibility...
...proposal, approved by nearly all and sorely needed, is to introduce a greater flexibility into the program through increased use of half-year courses. Presently over half of the seventeen courses offered run from September to June. Many of these, it is admitted, could be pared down to a half-year...
...premise that the goal is a more intelligent understanding of the public issues of the past and present, the courses would be designed around the topical approach. Examples would be courses on the corporation, on the economic impact of government activity, the present course on the Soviet Union, a half-year course on underdeveloped countries. In discussing this approach, Dunlop stressed that these would not be "watered down versions of the analytic approach but a new crosscut." It should be noted that, while not analytical, these courses would still include some quantitative analysis or even simple economic models, but these...
...vigorous old man. He acts some stories out, wanders from rostrum to table to chair and back again, puffs leisurely on a cigar, and generally presents an animated and engrossing performance, despite the fact that Holbrook is the only person on stage all through the two and a half hour program...