Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said the moderate Manchester Guardian: "The oversimplifications Mr. Wallace indulges in are dangerous because they delude people into thinking there is some magic way of getting world peace. ... It would be a change if he could forget his apocalyptic rhetoric a bit and get down to the level of mundane facts and figures with which statesmen have to deal...
...departmental staff repeatedly stresses the idea that it is not set up merely to cater to the needs of embryodoctors, yet the concentration program is too varied to provide more than a bare subsistence-level development of biochemical studies...
Little else of straight theory is offered on the undergraduate level. Courses closely related to theory, however, include "The Economy of the United States", "The Economy of Russia", "Chinese Economic Problems", "The Economy of Latin America", and "The Economics of Socialism...
Today's 250 ES&AP concentrators acquire a much broader fundamental understanding of the physical sciences than the pre-war Engin. Sci. mon. They leave the level of "slide rule pushers," and although they may have to ask a lot of questions on their first few jobs, changing situations and techniques won't upset them...
...undergraduate level, therefore, the program is essentially elementary. When the receives his S.B. degree, the ES&AP concentrator has a competent and intelligent understanding of all branches of engineering: electronics, mechanics, unclear physics, thermodynamics, and a strong groundwork in mathematics. But he has done no advanced work or specialization...