Word: onto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...connected with a university, but one that teaches only graduate students, and while he hopes to stimulate the study of asronomy in high schools and colleges there, he will largely be giving up teaching. Not again will he come home with a batch of Astronomy 1 essays, toss them onto the floor in a heap and settle back with two or three cans of beer to read them. This system, of course, had its disadvantages for the student whose paper was being read when he ran out of beer, for Bok always advised brevity...
...excellence of any school depends directly on the quality of its professors, and a school which wishes to improve itself attempts to bring the best available men onto its faculty. Tenure appointments, which assure a man of a continuing academic position, are the means normally used by a school to give its best men the security which will attach them firmly to the school and to their teaching and research in the school. However, due to lack of funds the School of Public Health is at present unable to offer new leaders in the field anything more than short term...
...Cornell, Columbia, and Dartmouth. There were two symmetrical trends: 1.) Harvard has won every alternate and even game, and has lost every odd game; 2) the Crimson has won exactly half of the home games and half of the away games. After projecting these trends as methods of analysis onto the remaining schedule of four games, we quickly saw two possibilities. By the first, Harvard must win the Princeton and Yale games, the sixth and eighth, and lose those against Penn and Brown. By the second, the Crimson must win one, lose one, and tie one of the three home...
...American Military Government. He took naturally to politics. He advocated uniting Catholics and Protestants into a political party, ultimately founded the Christian Socialist Union in Schongau and was one of the founders of the greater Bavarian C.S.U. Elected to the West German Bundestag in 1949, he charged onto the national scene like a Tiger tank on the rampage...
With Nationalist. China crumbling in 1948, Chennault loaded his Shanghai maintenance base onto a converted LST, fled first to Canton, then to Hainan, on to Hong Kong and finally across the Formosa Strait to Formosa, where CAT has stayed ever since. Flying along the perimeter of Red Asia, Chennault and CAT staked their entire future in 1949 on a coup to keep 71 planes of two Chinese national airlines from falling into Red hands. When the crews defected, leaving most of the transports at Hong Kong's airport, Chennault and his friends signed notes...