Word: rigorousity
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But the need for rigorous treatment led to the "deplorable" separation of mathematics from the teaching of the other sciences. "The change drove mathematics into isolation."
Tests & Torture. Painstaking as they were, all the preparations for trouble could not compare with the planning that had gone into the training of the astronaut himself. One of seven volunteers chosen in April 1959 from a list of no military test pilots, Shepard had been in rigorous discipline ever...
Last month 500 more students entered the schools after rigorous selection and anguished boning up on calculus. Rickover personally screens every officer who enters, grills every enlisted man who flunks to find out why. He checks the courses and picks the teachers, many of them former college professors now happily...
In this statement, Mr. Phillips and his group asked that the Peace Corps "under no conditions be transferred to a supernational body such as the United Nations," that the training program include "extensive, rigorous training in . . . the Communist menace," and that the applicants undergo an F.B.I. security check. Attached to...
The Administration has adamantly refused to be pinned down to any set of standards on which the question may be argued. Rigorous analysis of any explicitly defined defense of the present would reduce it to wool. A position that is only an intuitive judgement of parietal proprieties can be maintained...