Word: papers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...danger, however, that the ultimate objectives of the course may be obscured under the exemption plan. Seminar leaders who offer to supervise the writing work of freshmen must be prepared to pay more-than-ordinary attention to students' writing. They must do more than grade and discuss paper as exercises within a specific discipline; they must work to develop students' general prose ability as well...
Catering to the particular tastes of its elderly and omnivorous readers is an obligation that President and Editor Nelson P. Poynter, whose family has owned this old-gold mine for years, is happy to discharge. Indeed, the oldsters have had a healthy effect on the paper itself. "They make you think twice before generalizing," said a Times staffer : "They really read the newspaper. They not only have the time, they have the informed interest. They're a challenge." Meeting that challenge has helped rank the St. Petersburg Times among the South's most solid newspapers...
After the sweeping Conservative election victory, the Daily Mirror stridently proclaimed its continuing prominence as the favorite newspaper of Britain's young people. "Sit back, folks," it cried last week on Page One. "Why is the Mirror read by more people than any other British paper? The answer is-it's gay. Buoyant. Moves with the times . . . The accent is on youth...
...Bellyful of Politics." The Mirror also trotted out the life story of Tommy Steele, England's answer to Elvis Presley, and a series on the "oh-so-quickly Rising Generation." Almost entirely missing from the paper was any mention of politics. "When you've just had an election," said Cecil King, "the course is set for the next five years. Women readers particularly have had a bellyful of politics." More could be expected of the Mirror in its effort to recapture its youthful appeal. But the question that remained wide open was whether the Daily Mirror, in trying...
...acids and, in effect, create a synthetic form of RNA. Brooklyn-born Dr. Arthur Kornberg, 41, graduated from the City College of New York at 19. Working for his M.D. at the University of Rochester, he picked up hepatitis, put the experience to good use by publishing his first paper ("The Occurrence of Jaundice in Otherwise Normal Medical Students") while still a student. Explaining his year at N.Y.U. to learn about enzymes from Ochoa, Kornberg says: "I got tired of feeding things into one end of an experiment and watching something come out of the other without understanding what goes...