Word: production
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chafee himself considered his major work the drafting of the Federal Inter-pleader Act of 1934. Although his interest in civil rights developed as a by-product of his more technical legal work, it was in the defense of free expression that Chafee achieved national prominence...
...essays in this book are another product of this serious devotion. If Edmund Wilson's brilliance is circumscribed, he speaks at least with the authority of a man of candor, skill, and high intelligence
Typical of the kind of new product development that helps make this progress possible is Mallory 1000 metal, a unique development of Mallory powder metallurgy. Already providing required balance in the nose of guided missiles, Mallory 1000 is twice as dense as steel or brass and far stronger than lead . . . actually outdoes nature in packing concentrated weight into the smallest possible space. As the pendulum in self-winding wrist watches, the rotor in gyroscopic control mechanisms, counterweights in airplane ailerons, and in dozens of other applications . . . this unique, man-made metal is another example of the way Mallory prepares...
...first diversion from independent study is--and we bring this up with some hesitation--the increasing professionalism of extra-curricular activities. Drama is probably the prime example--with nine productions in two weeks last spring--but publications, radio, and music probably fit the pattern equally well. As the end product of students who came up the ranks learning-by-doing, this is natural and not necessarily a Bad Thing; but as a barrier to independent study, it must be taken into account in planning the curriculum, for it concerns over half the undergraduates...
...change in the curriculum which would provide the opportunity for unbroken research, built upon knowledge gained in courses but going beyond courses by applying the student's, and not the instructor's point of view to a subject; and the chance to work closely with a tutor in a product that would not be graded by the tutor, but instead by someone else (as in the case of the thesis...