Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...letter was given to Arthur D. Trottenberg, manager of operating services, who directed two engineers to investigate the freshman complaint. After installing the thermograph, they checked the instrument daily and found that the temperature in the room went down as low as 59 degrees...
Every undergraduate spends at least three years of his life in one of the seven Houses, unless he finds a wife, enlists, plays a noisy musical instrument, has parents living nearby, becomes physically or mentally ill, or cannot afford to live in a House...
...through tutorial, if the material covered were selected on the basis of individual interests rather than departmental regulations, if the tutors could demand more than token reading assignments, if they refused to ignore and thereby encourage student indifference, then tutorial might begin to realize its potential as an educational instrument...
...school flourished in its early years, hit a peak enrollment of an astonishing 14,000 in 1946-47. Sample courses: "Principles of Marxism (which postulates are valid for the U.S.?)"; "Guitar Playing and Song Leading I and II (with emphasis on the use of the guitar as a social instrument)." For years the school's name has been bandied back and forth in congressional hearings. In 1947 the school was placed on the Attorney General's list of subversive organizations, and in 1955 the Jefferson School of Social Science was described by the careful U.S. Subversive Activities Control...
...something strange to see-an unwieldy hodgepodge of Scandinavian and Colombian infantry, Indian paratroopers, Yugoslav reconnaissance troops and Canadian headquarters personnel-yet the world's first international police force, taking form in Egypt last week, became from the outset a real instrument of power. Danish riflemen a little sheepishly took up buffer positions between the Egyptian and Anglo-French lines at El Cap, about 27 miles south of Port Said, and this week Norwegian and Danish troops are scheduled to relieve the Anglo-French forces of control of a large part of Port Said. Close to 2,700 officers...