Word: homework
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...credit hours, five of them in speech, and plans to become a speech therapist. An average of six times a year she has to go to St. Mary's Hospital for a few days and four pints of blood. But by various devices, such as always doing her homework in bed, Marclan saves enough energy to play the piano, teach in her father's Baptist Sunday school, and carry on light campus activities. It has already taken more than 250 pints of blood to keep Marclan Walker up to this pitch of near-normal activity...
...board. In 1946, General Electric had mapped an expansion program of several hundred million dollars, and President Charles E. Wilson was not sure how his board would react. His worries vanished when Weinberg supported the plans with hard facts and figures. Said Wilson: "Sidney had done his homework, and that was all I needed...
...course was quite popular and the "Aural-Oral" (Cornell) method of teaching is proving to be a success. "There is no guarantee that we'll stop at 4 hours a week," a section man said, "but in the event that we don't, we'd pare down the homework...
...someone had clearly been doing political homework. Most of the evidence pointed to ousted Premier Abdullah Khalil. Strongly anti-Nasser, Khalil had been having difficulties. Bedeviled by rising prices, by an economic boycott on the part of Egypt and a growing surplus...
Just as at any college, "Some people put the emphasis on the work, but a lot of people don't," as one sophomore commented. Other thoughts on the academic situation included "There really is an excellent faculty," "We have an awful lot of homework," "I miss the boys in classes," "I was amazed at the lab facilities," and "I don't think Mount Holyoke is a very inspiring place...