Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even though the number presently unsatisfied with tutorial is larger than had been hoped, the nature of their dissents is not sufficient reason to recommend that the departments make non-honors tutorial voluntary. Most of the criticisms from the dissenters mention practices that stray from the advice of the Bender and Blackmer reports. Where the blueprints have been followed, students are satisfied. A few changes in the procedure of the tutorial meetings can change much of the present criticism to praise...
Ever since the story appeared, the "landmark" has been looming larger. Dr. Fishback has heard from people in 25 states and Alaska, most of them wanting more information and help in getting similar projects started in their own communities. More than 50 letters asked him for copies of his reading list for school board members, mentioned in the story...
...inefficient hodgepodge of 6,466 school districts, but he doubted that the legislature would succeed. As far back as 1902, school officials tried to get a redistricting bill passed; they tried again in 1919, again in 1949. Each time the powerful farm bloc refused to budge. Its main objections: larger schools, taking in larger districts and more pupils, may, in some cases...
...larger of the two Germanys occupies the north and east, lies astride the Iron Curtain barrier. It is Protestant and Prussian, a culture half bourgeois and half aristocratic, a nation that looks East as well as West. This is the nationalist Germany hewn out by Martin Luther in the 16th century when he made his people's declaration of independence, political as well as spiritual, from the tottering visible unity of Rome. This is the Germany which has now been ripped in two by the war of Communism and the democracies. This is the Germany of Otto Dibelius. Once...
...Transistors, the tiny, tubeless gadgets that do the work of much larger electron tubes and last almost indefinitely, will put electronics to work in "many fields which the electron tube has not been able to serve . . . We should not be surprised to see electronic appliances find their way into the home. Air conditioners, using electronics, eliminating motors, blowers and compressors, and therefore noiseless, may lead a mighty procession." ¶In industry, "wherever danger, remoteness or discomfort preclude the presence of a human observer, the industrial television camera can take his place." ¶In education, "schools . . . may employ their TV sets...