Word: instead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...half minutes later, Hedreen picked up a loose ball on the left side of the nets, with Caldwell far out of position. Instead of trying to blast the ball through the defenders massed in front of him, he passed across to wing Dick McIntosh, all alone on the right, and McIntosh tallied easily...
...Suppose you read a book about writers in which all attention is focused on the problem of which finger you hit the typewriter key with. Wouldn't it offend you? Then why don't you writers realize how boring it is to read books in which, instead of telling about living people, you only describe the square-cluster method of planting potatoes? We want to tell you bluntly that we know better than you do how to milk cows or plant corn, and what we don't know the experts will tell...
Whether accomplished through seminars or Gen Ed sections, the teaching of prose exposition must include as much individual consultation between teacher and students as possible. Present sections often fail in this respect. While it may never be possible to institute individual conferences instead of sections (Harold Martin, Director of Gen Ed A, stresses that the number of personnel that can be recruited is limited) there is need for more individual consultation than now exists. Perhaps experiments in decreasing the number of sections per term in order increase time for student-instructor conferences would help strengthen teaching...
...anyone foreseen the length of the running battle (nine days) and the amount of ammunition needed. Another unpredictable-factor was the newly designed British ships, smaller and faster than the traditional men-of-war; with them, the British hoped to abandon the old tactics of close fighting and grappling, instead intended to stand off and demolish the Spanish ships with long guns. This plan did not work; gunnery was so imprecise that no captain knew whether a given culverin would dismast his enemy, drop its ball a quarter-mile short, or explode and wreck his own ship...
...book, to be published today, makes no attempt to offer a final solution. Instead, it tries to clarify the relationship betwen the faculties of the American schools, their students, and the society they are going to face...