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Word: masters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government will do everything it can to hurry along approval of the applications and speed the prospectors on their way. In the master plan for developing the Arctic, oil may well be a lure that brings roads and towns and facilities of every description. The government itself touched off the race for applications with recently completed geological maps showing formations of an oil-bearing type extending through the Arctic as far as Ellesmere Island, 490 miles from the North Pole. To aid future prospectors for oil as well as other minerals, the Department of Transport plans to open northern airfields...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Race to the Islands | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

...Master & Slaves. Decca, developed mostly in Britain (but invented by William O'Brien, a U.S. engineer), is a "hyperbolic" system that uses groups of four stations. One of them is a master, the others "slaves" arranged around it 60-100 miles apart. The Decca receiver is set to receive the waves of all three slave stations, and measure the microseconds of time they take to reach it. When the waves from two stations arrive at the same time, the airplane must be at the same distance from both stations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Which Way to the Airport? | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

...College, subjects will be covered, not by providing complete programs of courses, but by training the student to master recognized fields of knowledge. A systematic and sustained effort will be made to train students to educate themselves. As freshmen, they will start with seminars especially designed to be the first step, not the last, in independence. Other devices, such as student-led seminars associated with all lecture courses, will all follow to reinforce this initial experience...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock, | Title: Attack on Academic Rigidity Calls for 'Major Departure' | 2/20/1959 | See Source »

Delmar Leighton '19, Master of Dudley House, agreed that "it will obviously be necessary to provide other facilities when Dudley House is torn down." The new center's location is "still in the area of speculation," he said, and the Lehman Hall idea is "just one of a number of possibilities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lehman Hall May House New Commuters' Center | 2/20/1959 | See Source »

...Faculty has set up an advisory committee for the project. The members are Dean Monro, Master Leighton, professors Stouffer and Riesman, and William G. Perry, Director of the Bureau of Study Council...

Author: By Alan H. Grossman, | Title: University Will Study Student Mental Health | 2/20/1959 | See Source »

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