Word: inners
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David Riesman '31, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences, is an unusual man. He is a scholar who strongly prefers teaching undergraduates, a best-selling author who has enlarged the American vocabulary with such words as inner-and other-directed, a professor who first set out to be a biochemist and then a lawyer. Since returning to Harvard to teach in 1958, he has also earned a reputation as an imaginative innovator...
...once stood proud, its shelves held high, a bookish inner sanctum...
...Efficiency. In Labor politics, Jenkins has always been on the right: pro-Europe, pro-NATO, ill at ease with the party's radical, Utopian socialists. He was long in Labor Leader Hugh Gaitskells inner circle. When Wilson became Prime Minister last year, he offered Jenkins what many insiders considered a noose to hang a potential rival: the Ministry of Aviation, which was faced with the politically delicate task of arranging sharp cutbacks in Britain's aircraft production. Jenkins did the job with elan and efficiency, earning the promotion to Home Secretary. This post, too, will test his mettle...
Inside a Bowl. Because it would slope upward in a graduated bank from its inner edge to its raised outer edge-much like the inside of a shallow bowl -the circular runway would provide great directional stability to a plane landing at high speed. It would prevent the plane from veering out of control to the right or left. Pulled outward by centrifugal force and downward by gravity, a fast-rolling plane would be confined to a circular path high against the outer, steeply sloping part of the runway. As its speed decreased, centrifugal force would lessen, and gravity would...
Better schools and new teaching methods are both needed by the cities, Pettigrew emphasized. But he went on, "Desegregation and educational upgrading cannot long remain the sole responsibility of inner school systems, even when bolstered by federal and state subsidies. In some cases, the central city is beginning...