Word: oftens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finds that before he can get on with his work, he must multiply numbers as long as his middle finger, divide them, add them, square them, extract their roots. Sometimes a process involving a complicated equation with many variables must be repeated thousands or hundreds of thousands of times. Often the scientist gives up in despair. Many important lines of research have bogged down in a morass of figures...
...Charles Eames's canvas-and-plastic chair with ventilated seat looked for all the world like an atomic-age version of a toilet seat. Florence Knoll's immense, pancake-thin air-foam bed, perched on spindly legs, had an insubstantial look that suggested uneasy napping. And too often, for all their inexpensive materials and simplified design, even the most agreable modern furnishings were higher-priced than the overdecorated, overstuffed period pieces most Americans are used...
Later, when Jesse became a superintendent, he found things less pleasant. Educationally, Kentucky was near the bottom of the nation's list ("Thank God for Arkansas," people used to say). The schools were often under the thumb of dictatorial trustees "who couldn't write their names, who would not know their own names if they had been printed on road signs...
...refer to Stanford University. West of the Mississippi, Stanford in fact carries all the social and intellectual prestige that Harvard has in the East But at opposite ends of the continent, these universities represent opposite ways of college life. The gay, outdoor, coed, magazine-type collegiate life dominates Stanford. Often called a playboy's school, Stanford presents a happy blend of good comradeship, rural atmosphere, and high scholarship...
...honor code. This is similar tote Radcliffe plan, with no proctors at exams. The freshmen receive a very strong indoctrination into the spirit of the code, which is pictured to them as an essential part of Stanford life. The code is enforced by a student court, which has often expelled students for cheating. One attitude expressed is, "Usually I'd try to see what I can get away with, but they pull this honor business on you and you're stuck." Coupled with the Honor Code is the Fundamental Standard, which says, "Students are expected to show both within...