Word: performer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Although the effectiveness of group tutorial is a quantitative problem, the success of a teaching fellow as a tutor depends directly on his quality as a teacher. The teaching fellow, without previous teaching experience, is expected to be neither a lecturer nor a question-asker, but to perform the nebulous task of stimulating his tutees' intellectual interest in the field, and to prepare the student for general examinations...
...bluntly," said Rickover, "our schools do not perform their primary purpose, which is to train the nation's brain power to the highest potential . . . We shall not do justice to our talented youth until we seek them out at an early age-no later than ten or eleven-and educate them separately...
Nowhere has the miniaturization trend brought greater rewards than in electronics. In place of old-style vacuum tubes, science has developed miniature tubes and tiny transistors no bigger than a shoelace tip to perform most of the same functions (TIME, March 12). The soldered-wire mazes of pre-war radio sets are giving way to electronic circuits printed on blotter-thin panels. Electric motors have shrunk to the size of a man's thumb, delicate gyroscopes to the size of a bottle stopper...
Tiley, 215-pound sophomore, showed his ability to perform the exacting fullback duties in Coach Charlie Caldwell's complicated single wing pattern in the opening game against Colgate. Against Columbia, Morris, just a tall, awkward sub for the brilliant Royce Flippin last year, took over and scored three touchdowns. A week later Mottley, whose name isn't in the pre-season brochure, sparked the attack...
Last week three judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals at St. Louis not only sustained the District Court injunction but unanimously ruled that school boards administering integration programs "have a federal right to be free from direct and deliberate interference with the performance of their constitutionally imposed duty." In Washington the Justice Department (which had taken the school board's side in the appeal as a "friend of the Court") saw a "nationwide impact" in the hands-off warning to segregationists, believed that the Hoxie suit might well mark a turning point in the integration fight. Reason...