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Word: overwhelmingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only One Couple. The logic of it all seemed overwhelming, and few disciplines pay as much homage to logic as do the law and math. But neither works right with the wrong premises. Hearing an appeal of Malcolm Collins' conviction, the California Supreme Court recently turned up some serious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Decisions: Trial by Mathematics | 4/26/1968 | See Source »

The argument for relocating reading period starts from the assumption that an overwhelming number of Harvard students do not, in fact, adequately keep up with their assigned reading. This results in the frantic last-minute burst of catching-up that recurs every reading-period--an orgy that leaves little time...

Author: By Salahuddin I. Imam, | Title: A Proposal For Educational Reform: Reading Period First, Lectures After | 4/23/1968 | See Source »

There are other minor objections but the overwhelming advantages of the proposed system, in terms of educational benefit and mental happiness, not to mention the eternal extinction of hour-exams, make it seem at least worthy of a try.

Author: By Salahuddin I. Imam, | Title: A Proposal For Educational Reform: Reading Period First, Lectures After | 4/23/1968 | See Source »

Another adverse consequence of the Report is that "such incessant protestations of guilt are going to reinforce feelings among Negroes that they are helpless against the overwhelming prejudice that exists among whites," Banfield said. He stresses that it is impossible to address whites without the Negro listening in and convincing...

Author: By Kerry Gruson, | Title: Experts Score Report's Assumptions | 4/22/1968 | See Source »

Camp Followers. The polls were not quite as beneficent as Kennedy might wish. The first Gallup poll matching the Democrats since President Johnson's withdrawal showed the New Yorker ahead of both Hubert Humphrey and Eugene McCarthy in a three-way race (35% to 31% for Humphrey and 23...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Going Like '60 | 4/19/1968 | See Source »

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