Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These scientists may as well accept the fact that they are no longer in the saddle. We individuals who insist upon being individuals no longer support them, ho longer believe in them; and unless they behave themselves better in the future and stop lying to us, will no longer tolerate them...
Most medical schools do not insist on an undergraduate major in Biology, nevertheless future doctors cram into the field as the best preparation for a medical career...
Muroc is the U.S. Air Force's secret test base. Its ships, as un-nautical Air Forcemen insist on calling aircraft, are the latest planes, from the big B-36 to Buck Rogerish craft that are still marked "Top Secret." Muroc is the world's finest landing field. A deliberately overloaded bomber can labor for miles across the lake before it tries the air. An experimental jet fighter of unproved design can be tested and wrung out, with worlds of room for landing if there is a structural or power-plant failure. Muroc's miles & miles...
...improvement of the teaching effectiveness of lecturers, advisors, and section men. The report says that the University-College balance is partially at fault, the faculty members have to devote too much time to their specialty and not enough to the undergraduates. If this is correct, perhaps the Administration could insist that all Faculty members devote more of their working hours to the College, as GE instructors already do. Perhaps also the Administration should consider a man's ability to teach as well as to publish when it makes promotions and appointments. And if Faculty members would read the Poskanzer Report...
...effective, an anti-discrimination law would have to insist that colleges take the 1000 smartest applicants, and consider nothing else. But tests often fail to predict how a person will do in college...