Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...misbehaved since. The new look comes partly from a flat look in the union's pocketbook after paying for Hall's defense and Bridges' frequent court appearances to fight deportation to Australia. But it springs also from the union's suspicion that there lies a limit beyond which even the I.L.W.U., for its own security, ought not to strain Hawaii's sugar and pineapple economy...
...there are other factors involved which seem to limit the value of television as a teaching medium. In the teaching of Chemistry, for example, it was discovered that television has certain physical limitations. Minor obstacles, such as the placing of micro-phones, wires, and lights, generally proved surmountable, but the lack of color and the small screen size were more serious...
...there are several factors inherent in the very nature of televised teaching which may limit its applicability. The chief of these is undoubtedly the fact that the "remoteness" of students reduces the possibility of teacher-student interaction. Although microphones can be set up to connect the viewing rooms with the originating room, it is obviously much more difficult for a student to ask a question than if he were in the same room as the professor...
...most popular of these is the band issue. It seems that the University controls the purse strings for all class dances, and that it has set an unofficial limit of around $2000 to be spent on a band. Unfortunately, the students often want to hire a big name band, which usually requires a larger sum of money. But the University feels that a big weekend doesn't necessitate a big name band, Robert Minnerly, chairman of the 1956 spring weekend, explained. "They fear the band would send an inferior group of players for an exorbitant sum," Minnerly added. "They...
...television sets for the soldiers on whose support he depended. His few sound investments were mostly expensive industrial installations, which the country's capital-short economy could ill afford. Moreover political interference with the operation of government-owned projects further hindered the country's industrial development. Belated attempts to limit imports of "luxuries" failed to stem the tide of rising debt and ebbing reserves...