Word: interested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wall. Chuck scavenged the last of the dangerous oxygen and alcohol from the system by flushing it with nitrogen. Then he began the long glide to earth, listening to the clock ticking on the instrument panel. He somehow found this "awful boring," he says, and welcomed his spurt of interest when he landed the X-1 at close to 165 miles an hour and rolled to a stop on Muroc's smooth surface...
When his niece Ann, a painfully plain woman doctor, bundled him off to the family's abandoned country house, old Tom feared that it was not so much out of affection for him as out of an interest in how he'd leave his money. But he settled down to enjoy the countryside he had known as a young fellow, and to watch with a critical eye the love affair and marriage of Ann and his nephew Robert...
...topic under discussion has been of major interest ever since federal aid to education became part of the Democrat party platform last year...
Since then he says he has followed the regular order of things: instructor in 1942 and assistant professor in 1945, when he helped revise the curriculum of the Department. Emphasizing personal instruction, he is highly praised by his students for his interest and teaching ability. He now hopes for a General Education course which would stress student participation in music. Choral works from important periods would be sung by members of the course: Plainsong, Ars Nova, the Renaissance, Bach, Beethoven, and Stravinsky. In this way, the students would "get inside the music." Lectures would relate the compositions to the artistic...
Although tutorial is the best answer to the College's needs, well-run sections and "advisory functioning ideally" can also help. However, the Committee charges that sections too often degenerate into "miniature lectures or policing sessions," and states that unless students and teachers take a lively interest in the advising system, "it must fail miserably in accomplishing anything beyond what a trained secretary could...