Word: reservoirs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...college graduates. All taught better for having broader life experience than the average young teacher. Yale's total training cost per teacher: $750, much less than for younger student teachers. With five of the women now fulltime teachers, concluded Yale, college-educated housewives are clearly "a dependable reservoir of teaching supply...
Egypt also needed Sudanese approval of the huge reservoir that will back up 100 miles into the Sudan behind the big dam, engulfing the land of thousands of Sudanese farmers. When talks broke down last year, the Sudan was demanding $100 million in compensation and Nasser was offering only $25 million. The two sides were also far apart on the proportion of river water each would get in a new pact...
...summary, Harvard's multiple virtues are inspiring, and they converge to form a spiritual reservoir in the pedagogue's life--a well from which he may draw cool water when he dwells in an arid land...
Farnsworth based his estimate on a recent survey in Lowell House and Dunster House, which showed about one-quarter of the students lacked protection. "We have a large reservoir of susceptible people here," he stated...
Certainly, all the cerebral activity here is given over to ingenuity and invention. The element of control is there, but it is innate, instinctual, the reservoir of all Picasso has learned and said. Precisely in this sense, and not in any spirit of license, The Bathers must be viewed indulgently as a Picasso. This is his domain, building upon a past he himself created. If he is making mistakes they are mistakes he has been careful to earn...