Word: pursuit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...examination of policy is always a fashionable pursuit in intellectual circles, and next year a new CEP subcommittee will scrutinize the College's admissions standards. Prominent among the issues almost certain to be discussed is that of imposing a mathematics achievement requirement for admissions...
...evidence of fix accumulated, one defendant already stood accused and convicted. That is the newspaper-puzzle gimmick itself, which, in its hot pursuit of quick circulation, has always been a highly questionable journalistic practice...
Nothing is allowed to impede the pursuit of perfection. Vantress discards any rooster whose offspring have high combs -a low comb means less slaughterhouse waste. Each half ounce that Vantress raises the dressing-out weight puts $30 million in the pockets of his customers. With an equal devotion to his job, Saglio recently decided that keeping chicken pedigrees in card indexes along with millions of measurement records involved the possibility of missing some choice genetic combinations. Now an IBM machine tabulates information on his birds. Tba machine decides which breeding rooster should go with which breeding...
...ultimate" solution of the commuter problem. In its features, a cooperative dorm falls far short of a Harvard House. A cooperative residence will lake tutorial staff, library, and that minimum of gracious living designed to remove the chores of cooking and maintenance which interfere with the proper pursuit of undergraduate learning. Perhaps most important, the Houses possess a heterogeneous grouping of students the cooperative houses cannot offer. The idea of a cooperative house is, to a great degree, a compromise with the goals of Harvard education...
...years the Chicago Black Hawks piled up the sorriest record of any team in major-league hockey-a game played almost exclusively by Canadians living in or visiting the U.S. in pursuit of their trade.*In all that time, the Black Hawks managed to finish as high as third only once, wound up dead last in nine of the past twelve seasons. But this year everything suddenly changed. To the astonishment of their most devoted supporters, the revitalized Hawks are second in the National Hockey League standings...