Word: manual
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...both broader and more practical than that offered in the traditional Chinese university system. Tunghai students will get heavy doses of history, the classics, the social sciences. They will also be required to do some nonacademic labor (a radical innovation in the Orient, where intellectuals have traditionally regarded manual labor as degrading). Since Tunghai is located in rich farming land, the university may eventually establish a student farm that will supply its own needs, and perhaps sell to the community...
...committee's work has been directed towards helping the polio patients in Boston's hospitals. An educational program is planned whereby students from the graduate school of Education and the Boston School of Ocupational Therapy will teach manual and fine arts to the victims of this summer's polio epidemic, he explained...
...labor-hungry whirlaway of U.S. production, job discrimination against the Negro has begun to melt. Swept off farms since 1930 (when they made up 35% of rural labor), Negroes by this year made up nearly 72% of the unskilled and semiskilled manual labor force. But only about 10% of U.S. middle-class white-collar workers are Negroes...
...radar. Twenty-five miles from the target, Major Holguin, at his bombsight controls up forward, became the key man in the City of Merced: Beau Traylor had only to maintain air speed. His face glued to the radarscope and its tireless, swinging line of light, Joe Holguin made manual adjustments to keep the crosshairs on the pip that marked his target. Nearly everything was handled by the "K" system, the fabulous new Air Force apparatus that automatically navigates, flies the plane and releases the bomb. From a sounding device came a steady hum. At the precise moment when...
...Manual of Discipline. The age of the scrolls fixed, the scholars turned to their origin. Archaeologists de Vaux and Harding had already searched the ruins from which Khirbet Qumrân took its name, concluded from the evidence they found that it had been the habitation of an ancient Jewish sect called the Essenes, one of the three major religious bodies within ancient Judaism (the others: the Pharisees and Sadducees). Their conclusions: 1) the manuscripts found near Khirbet Qumrân were once part of an Essene library; 2) the sectarian documents, i.e., The War of the Children of Light...