Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Larger Than Life." The shrinking of the Atlantic is only one of many reasons for expanding British interest in American affairs. With an increase in tourism, Britons are returning from the U.S. with newly whetted appetites for news. Many British papers have added pages and elected to fill them with U.S. news. And through the austerity of postwar England shines the image of the fabulous States. "America has a glamour to British readers greater than any foreign country." says Correspondent Brittenden. "It offers a picture that seems slightly larger than life...
...even in the Ivy League, alumni are still alumni. When they got tired of seeing their teams beaten, Yale and Harvard alumni went to work to interest academically qualified players in their respective alma maters. They operated under restrictions. Only an estimated 3% of the best U.S. high school players can meet the Ivy schools' scholastic requirements. No financial help can be promised. But the lure of an Ivy-school degree is an important recruiting tool and, within limits, alumni can find a way. Of the 16 freshmen receiving scholarship help from the Harvard Club of Boston this year...
...market is testament to the new status of art in the scale of values of U.S. culture. Even those unknown artists who do not benefit directly, or at once, can be grateful. As long as prices are posted over lunch counters, artists will go on taking an interest in the relation between the price of what they sell and the price of what they...
...machine, like a good tutor, substantiates and corroborates right answers and quickly points out and corrects wrong ones--"using this immediate feedback not only to shape his behavior most efficiently but to maintain it in strength in a manner which the layman would describe as 'holding the student's interest...
Time has become even more scarce since A Program for Harvard College began. Mrs. Pusey is included in many of the fund-raising trips, and observes: "It's important to interest wives in the Program. It is not like a five dollar contribution, where the husband can make up his own mind...