Word: homework
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course grade are usually one and the same. There is some attempt to count class recitation, but the professors themselves admit this is slightly hopeless. The classes are so large and the material so vast that very few students get called on more than twice a term. Labs and homework are nothing more than borderline factors. Consequently, the student goes into finals realizing that everything depends on his performance. If he happens to miss the point of the case, his Low Pass is almost inevitable, regardless of his previous showing in class discussions or homework...
...tests them in mathematics, electricity, shop practice, radio; those who pass get ratings (radioman, second or third class), are shipped to W9XBK. They live at the Naval Armory, half a mile away, work nine hours, six days a week, five hours on Sundays, cram in another two hours of "homework" nightly...
Nine o'clock came each night before his car swung through Washington's jammed traffic, crossed into Maryland to Oxon Hill, where the Secretary could enter the cool magnificence of his home. In the great Georgian house Welles dined briefly, buckled into his homework. Even in the thick, still heat of a Maryland summer night on the Potomac, Sumner Welles seemed cool. War or peace, he will remain...
...Philadelphia, all SKF Industries top executives are working 60 to 70 hours a week "and we go home with homework...
...Soviet expropriations have piled up more interest costs and legal fees than the original claims, yet a great many of them remain unsolved after twenty-three years. But the potential legal complications after World War II make the Russian claims look like a law schoolboy's homework...