Word: minore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although this experiment may seem of minor importance when related to the educational system as a whole, it has important implications. For as the nations colleges face a critical rise in the number of applicants by 1960, it has become obvious that some solution to the problems of expansion must be found. Closed circuit television may well be one answer to these problems...
...Minor Obstacles...
...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...
Child's Toys. For six years, archaeologists of the University of Pennsylvania have been digging at the site of ancient Gordium, capital of the Phrygians, who ruled much of Asia Minor up to the yth century B.C. Dr. Rodney S. Young, leader of the dig, tells how an earthen mound near Gordium was probed with an oil-well pilot drill. Off to one side, presumably to foil grave robbers not equipped with modern scientific gadgets, was the tomb of a high-born Phrygian child who died about 2,600 years ago. The remains of five baby teeth were sifted...
...cumulative effect of crooked pictures and uncorrelated desk accessories, reasons the survey, is to expose the executive to "countless minor irritations dripping constantly on the nerves." Since businessmen spend half their waking lives in offices, they soon "succumb, in the prime of life, to ulcers, nervous breakdowns and heart attacks." Well-designed furnishings, on the other hand, "pay off in the health, happiness and peak efficiency of the executive." They will also be around when his successor moves...