Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many students do go through four years without ever approaching their capacity, at least in academic work. But they have been threatened with grades periodically, though perhaps not so often as they might have been. Many of them have not exerted themselves because they found no particular stimulation or excitement in a series of lectures progressing neatly to an examination...
...very particular sense, the menacing Russian advance was no surprise to Edward Teller, 49, the rumpled, shaggy-browed, Hungarian-born nuclear physicist, the "father of the H-bomb" and now associate director of the University of California's Radiation Laboratory. Teller was uniquely endowed by his scientific talents, a first-hand familiarity with Middle European tyranny and his deep affection for his adopted U.S. to see what most of his fellow countrymen could not see. Of all the U.S. scientists on campus, in government, in industry, Teller worked hardest and most belligerently to send the warning that the Russians...
...running and ball-handling of the Bruin backs enabled the winners to gain almost at will on the options; Frank Finney, in particular, proved his mettle as a quarterback with his flawless execution of this play...
...game prognostications suggest a good deal of passing by both sides. The Crimson, in particular, is likely to try the passing game early, since two of its best running backs (Boulris and Halaby) will not start...
...practice, the Ad Hoc Committee frequently fails to limit a department's tendency to become ingrown with like minded and similarly trained men. Departments oft-times make it clear to the Committee which man they want for the job. A "fair haired" young man is groomed for a particular professorship so that the Ad Hoc Committee simply approves a choice made by the department years before. There are few professors who do not have definite opinions about who should be the new man in the department or who should be their successor. Fewer still are those who maintain silence about...