Word: informative
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than 20 years-were told that management would review their proposals for severance pay this week. But many feared that the paychecks they had received only a few hours earlier would be their last. Up on a bulletin board went a black-lettered card: "We regret to inform you that there is no Santa Claus...
...order was proposed by Councillor Al Vellucci, and was adopted unanimously by the six councillors present. Vellucci also requested that the School Board inform the Council how much rent it will charge the city for the use of the public schools, a move which was also adopted unanimously...
Mimeographing lecture outlines would, of course, cost money, but it could improve the inefficient lecture system enough to make it justifiable. Theoretically, lectures are given not only to inform the student, but to help the professor sharpen his conceptions of his subject. At least in theory, he is offering his latest thoughts to a critical audience for the purpose of receiving constructive suggestions. Without the material aid of an outline, the professor's presentation cannot achieve maximum effectiveness, nor can the student exercise his critical capacity...
...sure, various departments hold a meeting to inform tutors what forms must be filled out and in what number, but large numbers of graduate students have little knowledge of the broad concepts behind tutorial, how they work in practice, or what techniques are effective. They are thus left in a position of finding out by trial and error, or, as is more likely, not finding...
...mass of solar information across to a mass audience, Bell's show used live action, patches of stock film (shot in Japan, Australia, France, India), and animated gimmickery. As a bonus, it spared viewers interruptions for commercials. Often Sun was dulled by some too-precious UFA (Gerald McBoing Boing) cartoons, and the interplay between big, brash Mr. Sun and Father Time (spoken by the late Lionel Barrymore), Dr. Research (U.S.C.'s Shakespeare Scholar Dr. Frank Baxter) and a usually superfluous Fiction Writer (Actor Eddie Albert) was too often embarrassingly labored. But the photography, much of it shot through...