Word: outright
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...launched its own intensive courses in modern languages. Classes met eight hours per week in new atmosphere--English was not spoken in the room. Mechanical devices and "native informants" (graduate students from foreign countries) helped perfect pronunciation. By 1950, the program had proven so successful that Cornell adopted it outright. Columbia soon followed, and rapidly developed a comparable program which gave it, along with Cornell, the finest elementary language courses of colleges in the nation...
...result, according to Faculty sources, fell somewhat short of outright rejection of all affidavits. Some professors commented that the multiplicity of votes was "bewildering" and that no one really knew precisely what had happened...
...banners blazing dubious slogans. Sample: "Friendship with the Soviet Union insures peace, protects freedom and provides a better life for all." For 185 teachers and 13,800 students, contrast with the vibrant past is painful. Leipzig is the largest East German University-and the saddest. It is an outright Communist trade school...
Eventually, according to the Dean, the Department of Financial Aid may achieve a one-two ratio of outright gifts to long-term loans. At present, the rate is one-three...
...World Council of Churches marched straight into a longstanding moral controversy last week, appeared to come close to outright endorsement of artificial birth control...