Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only prerequisites for design school are a B.A. and basic courses in math and physics which no undergraduates should have trouble fulfilling," King said. He urged Radcliffe students interested in architecture to audit or enroll in courses taught...
...cent of its enrollees who received Ds or Es last semester. The course's "sympathetic" instructors apologized with a curt "We're sorry if this ruins any of your career plans." Organic chemistry is the most important of the five courses (the others include biology, physics, math, and an inorganic chemistry course) required for entrance to medical school. An A in Chem 20 virtually insures one of this nation's scarce med school places, an unsatisfactory grade virtually insures rejection...
...star in P.S. 197 in Brooklyn, you had to get A s in math and gym and be just bad enough to get C s in what Mrs. Murphy, the third grade teacher, called "deportment." Kenny fit the bill and was the idol of the distaff side of class...
...Herbert's math, the half million fighting men the U.S. had in South Viet Nam at the height of the war actually included less than 50,000 grunts. Nine out of ten soldiers were in the rear or in noncombat jobs at the front. This book offers the reader dreadful panoramas of the Hieronymous Bosch Viet Nam landscape as it can be seen only by the insider: American interrogation experts presiding over whippings and water torture and electric-shock "therapy" of V.C. suspects (including women), fire bases overrun by enemy sapper squads because the defenders were all stoned...
...situation comedy where bumbling parents and sophisticated kids wade through one suburban cliche after another or the soapopera where the sappy organ music aptly complements the artificial emotional crises. Television's presentation of the collapse of the American Dream was typified by Beaver Cleaver flunking fourth-grade math, or more recently by Archie Bunker confronting black neighbors with more education than he. Except for occasional glimpses into the personal lives of renowned families such as Edward R. Murrow provided in his "Person-to-Person" series, or the televised tragedies of political assassinations, the airwaves have been empty of families that...