Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Opportunity are open to men from almost every field of engineering skill and knowledge. Although the greatest requirement is for mechanical engineers, in most cases the fundamental engineering education is a more important consideration that the particular engineering major or degree...
...offer the services of his engineering skill, and, as it happened, his fencing ability too. When the automatic retirement policy left, the University without a fencing instructor last fall, Marion filled the position vacated by Rene Peroy. The transition period was difficult since each instructor has his own particular teaching methods. But new pupils were soon responding with eagerness as the master revealed the intricacies of successful blade work...
When Paul Gauguin, seeking escape from the rigors of civilization, arrived in Tahiti in 1891, he fell in love with the island and its people. One Tahitian in particular intrigued Gauguin: a golden-skinned girl of 13 named Tehura. Gauguin, who had left a lawful wife and five children in Europe, settled down with Tehura to a South Pacific existence: "Happiness inhabited my home. Each morning it rose radiant with the sun; the golden hue of Tehura's face filled the house with joy and light . . . and [she] gave herself to me ever more loving and docile...
...pictures stipulated in his five-year contract. The break was no surprise to Hollywoodians. who understood that Columbia's President Harry Cohn had agreed with-and perhaps urged -Kramer to close shop after finishing The Caine Mutiny and The Wild One (both still unreleased). Kramer. 40. explained: "My particular talents gravitate to making one picture at a time and then selling it ... Before I started on this multiple production, I believe my strength was in being one-half step ahead of motion-picture production. But in the last two years, I've been half a step behind...
...English department, conscious also of the aimless groove into which tutorial can fall, has experimented with a tutorial plan fitted into regular section meetings. The superiority of the Economics plan is evident: tutorial can remain unfettered by the limitations of one particular course and still-be assessed at the end of the year...