Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weapons system has been more heavily guarded than the MOLE (Molecular Orbiting Low-Level Explorer). First hint of its existence came last spring when a Washington-datelined story in Electronic News reported that the Pentagon "is becoming heavily committed" to a radically new weapons system, added: "The MOLE should put an end to war. No location on earth will be secure from the MOLE." Later stories reported that 1) a special new agency (Subterranean Exploration Agency-SEA > had been set up to handle the new weapon and 2) the prime contract had been awarded to Accuracy Inc. of Waltham, Mass...
...institutions is the relationship of the college to the university as a whole. At Yale there is a much sharper division between the graduate and the undergraduate students, and it is rare for the two to be mixed in the same course. At Harvard, a greater number of lower level courses are taught by grad students. Dean Bundy feels that this is valuable, since it creates "a greater interplay" between the two. Blitzer agrees that the isolation of the Yale graduate school is too sharp...
...advantage of the strict separation at Yale is in favor of the college student, says Whiting. "At Yale, the undergraduate is kingpin." He adds that the trend among the Harvard faculty is a preference to teach on the graduate level; at Yale, the opposite is true...
...State House, he did not seem made for government on that broad a scale. His lavish handouts, his willingness to trade legwork for votes and to dispatch hecklers with tongue or fists, the techniques he applied as boss of Ward 17, were best suited to government on that level...
...earlier requirements are successfully met, the Honors candidate will be asked to submit an acceptable thesis, take a graduate level seminar, and pass an oral examination on his thesis topic and its relation to the student's field of study during his senior year...