Word: researched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Capitol Hill in Washington, and that nose cones from the Missouri Fury have been recovered regularly at points no more distant than the Pentagon and the White House. Dr. H. S. Truman of Independence, sole architect of the remarkably successful Hot-Shot Harry missile of 1948, heads the small research and development team at work on the Missouri Fury. One desirable feature of the Fury is the fact that it is somewhat quieter than other models in the Democratic family of missiles...
...school systems have arranged with Harvard a joint project called the "School and University Program for Research and Development." The main objectives of this program, better known as "SUPRAD," are to improve the quality of education, to promote greater efficiency in the use of time and space in the schools, and to find a means of attracting and holding highlyqualified persons in both teaching and administrative positions...
Preparation for the Newton Plan lectures was exhaustive. The lecturers undertook a maximum of research and planning and prepared their various audio-visual aids themselves, finding that commercial slides and other aids were in most cases not exactly suited to their needs. Each lecture was then given a dry run before colleagues and revised on the basis of their suggestions...
...used more effectively, for if a teacher has several classes that are required to attend lectures, he is freed from the necessity of preparing an alternative class or even from attending the lecture once its constant has been determined. The time thus saved can be used by teachers for research, conference remedial work with individuals, and for teaching small discussion seminars...
...whole the SUPRAD project is an attempt to bridge the gap which so many educators feel exists today between theoretical research on education in the graduate schools of the nation's universities and practical application of these theories in the elementary and high schools. The SUPRAD organization is performing a new and healthy role in linking the theories of educators to the practice of teaching