Word: regular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weekly an anticoagulant drug, part of the follow-up therapy of his Sept. 24, 1955 heart attack. Prescribed to retard bloodclotting, the drug had been given three times a week at first, was cut down slowly until a month ago, when Patient Eisenhower was found to need no further regular medication...
...report to the Overseers, President Conant proposed a three-year college program with emphatic support. In the ensuing discussion one important change over the past emerged: there was to be no "acceleration" of regular courses in the undergraduate years. Involved in the new proposal was a complete revamping of the curriculum. Educators suggested a three-term-per-year plan to ease the revision, instead of the present two-term system. Emphasis in courses would undergo sweeping change. Less specialization in the upperclass years would be required. In short, the whole theory of undergraduate education would be re-examined; the curriculum...
During World War II, the Business School awarded "Industrial Administrator" degrees after one year of study. The experiment proved unsatisfactory; many students returned after the war to get their regular M.B.A. In 1951, 81% of the Business School felt two years an absolute necessity...
...same ambiguity cut the other way, for the students best able to cope with the regular requirements were also allowed to dispense with them and get course reductions, tutorial for credit, and other special dispensations, while those who found courses extremely difficult to adapt to were not allowed to dispense with them, but continued to plug away at the media to which they were unsuited...
...Belfast home of a Presbyterian pastor. He turned her over to the police, who took her to a welfare home to await a hearing. Lord John Clarke MacDermott, Northern Ireland's Lord Chief Justice, declaring her a ward of the court, ordered that she attend only regular Presbyterian Church services, address no public meetings. As for her Catholic parents, they would have to accept their Protestant daughter in what MacDermott called his "experiment in toleration...