Word: mold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...City Council has urged that the Common, several buildings in Harvard Yard, a large part of Radcliffe Yard, and the buildings on the land bought by the Graduate School be declared historic sites because "they are landmarks that tend strongly to give our city a distinctive character and mold the public image...
problem: how to raise scholastic stand ards without freezing profitable academic ferment in a rigid mold. One idea is a national advisory body for education. Columbia's Fischer, for example, proposes an organization like the American Red Cross, without federal funds or power, "to pass ammunition to local school boards," but not ''to lay down the law." Education Professor Paul R. Hanna of Stanford Uni versity advocates a national "commission for curriculum research and development" that would guide school boards but also shun fixed standards...
Fearless and teal, pious and pitying, cunning and courteous, he was a paragon of chivalry and the mold of Spanish manhood. He became a legend in his lifetime, and some 40 years after his death in 1099 he was celebrated in El Poema de Mio Cid-a vast rambling rime that became the national epic-as the Lancelot of Spain and something more, as a sort of Round Table...
...many abstract curves available can be analyzed with sufficient mathematical ease to permit an architect to calculate stress factors at a given point. And no curve satisfying the mathematical requirements lends itself so simply to the straight line geometry of the carpenter who must build a mold out of flat pieces of wood to form curved concrete surfaces...
...Acting Secretary-General, U Thant is expected to prove a patient and efficient chairman, rather than a bold initiator in Dag Hammarskjold's mold. U.S. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson believes that he will be "very sturdy" in protecting his office against Russian attempts to undermine it. Throughout the long succession crisis, U Thant resisted all Soviet maneuvers to foist troika schemes on the U.N. Secretariat...