Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...task in its goal of gaining 40,000 additional whites a year, for the number of people who emigrate from South Africa each year, out of disillusion or fear, almost balances the number of immigrants. Last year there were 16,319 newcomers as against 14,392 emigrants, leaving a narrow net gain of only...
...Journal of the American Institute of Architects, M. R. Wolfe, professor of urban planning at the University of Washington, urges modern mall makers to abandon their sweeping vistas and their straight lines and do a bit of borrowing from the old cities of the world, with their twisting, narrow streets dominated by clock towers and opening into sudden squares...
Partly as a result of the "shining example" of the Chicago experiment and partly from his own experience is led to make comments "The A student is very often stupid," and, "An awful lot and narrow students grind...
...admitted, generalizing on the various group personalities he has observed: "My general impression is that boys with athletic abilities and interests tend to be more broad-minded and have a greater breadth of interests than members of other groups. The self-conscious intellectuals, for example, tend to be more narrow and in their interests, and are usually more arrogant in their approach to problems than are the athletes...
...before in an all-out effort for intellectual progress. "Afterward," Bender pointed out, "they found out that the intellectual, in quotes, were not really as as they thought and that the non-intellectuals, in quotes, were really quite valuable after all." The experiment resulted in a student body of "narrow intellectuals," and the school's appearance declined so much that five years administration had trouble finding enough students to fill its quota...