Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Elder explained that the move to mark graduate students on a scale similar to undergraduates will eliminate the "courtesy B minuses" now given out by many instructors. Elder admitted having occasionally given B minuses to students who would otherwise have received no credit for a course...
...also obtain scholarships; upper class families can absorb an additional bill without losing more than a few coupons. But the two-car family which has peculiar demands upon its savings gets caught in the pinch which has already hit the slightly less prosperous family. Unless both the scale and theory of scholarship aid are revised, financial aid officers are likely to continue looking askance at pleas from the so-called middle-middles, suggesting that they could sell the electric dishwasher or forgo the long summer vacation. But these things have become a part of their way of life. Whether...
Valuable as SUNFED should become, however, it would form only a small drop in the reservoir demanded by a large scale program of world development. Conservative estimates put the capital now needed by under-developed nations at $14 billion per year. As basic projects lead to new demands for more material improvement in the next few years, the financial need is certain to skyrocket. A little more land and a little more rice will not satisfy peasants who have suddenly begun to sense that they can change their conditions...
...dullness in the texture of the concrete, especially when combined with smooth, anonymous geometric forms. He has tried to create more interest by marking the surfaces but in terms of whole figures, these markings seem haphazard. Nivola also attempts to create interest in the surfaces by applying color. The scale of this experimentation seems as yet too limited, except in one bas-relief panel. Here the color gives real character to the surrealistic fantasy...
...possible complement to federal aid, Harris proposed a system of tuition reductions according to need. Any sliding scale would, however, require a great amount of intercollege cooperation and coordination, he observed...