Word: shallower
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...frame is more magnificent and glittering than ever, but the picture inside is shallow, unrewarding and in places even tawdry...
...into the scalp. Then, with a drill and saw, Dr. Meyers removed a piece of the skull, four by five inches. Ultrasound cannot be transmitted through bone because on meeting such resistance it generates too much heat. With the skull flap out of the way, the surgeons made a shallow pan in its place, using a metal strip as border and the dura mater (the brain's parchment-like covering) as the bottom. This they filled with salt solution from which all gas had been removed (ultrasound is transmitted best through a liquid medium...
Unexciting & Shallow. The longer the student must work, the heavier will be his financial burden, and the more apt he will be to drop out of graduate school before finishing his requirements. But even if his money holds out, say the deans, "what surety does he have about the kind of training he will meet? . . . Here too much is obscure, and too often the assignment of routine courses replaces careful faculty consideration. Too much is mechanical; too little is personal. It is easier to tell a man to take the traditional courses-unexciting, shallow, and often repetitious survey courses-than...
...General Education and shallow understanding the Institute for Advanced Study provides a refreshingly restricted and wise venture into the vast field of learning. Its astonishing success speaks well for thorough, understanding and advanced scholarship.J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER...
Here too much is obscure and too often the assignment of routine courses replaces careful faculty consideration. Too much is mechanical; too little is personal. It is easier to tell a man to take the traditional courses--unexciting, shallow, and often repetitions survey courses--than to conclude that this particular man could well be allowed to do much of this work on his own--reading and listening and talking where he can profit most. The frequent result is depressing indeed, for we see many a man less mature, less selfpoised, and less confident after two years in a graduate school...