Word: sharing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...students swelled by the baby boom of the late '40s. On top of that, the growth of postgraduate education has forced top professors to concentrate much of their teaching effort on older students. The sum of such pressures is that many universities are turning over a large share of freshman and sophomore teaching to graduate students. These teaching fellows or teaching assistants-often called TAs-have for thousands of students become the prime contact with the university...
Frantically pursuing their own Ph.D.s while they carry a substantial share of the university teaching, TAs are generally the most enthusiastic, underpaid and overworked members of a university teaching staff. They are getting more numerous all the time. Of Harvard's 1,816 teachers, 893 are teaching fellows. The University of California's Berkeley campus has 1,303 TAs out of 3,460 teachers. The University of Michigan had only four teaching fellows in its Literary College in 1933, has 579 today...
Unable to buy more stock because of skyrocketing prices, Simon turned around and sold Ohio's share for a $2,800,000 profit. He put his oil profits into cottonseed oil, in 1946 acquired New Orleans' Wesson Oil for $76 mil lion. He quickly doubled its size, strengthened its marketing and distribution systems...
Died. Ethel du Pont Roosevelt Warren, 49, shy, handsome daughter of the late Du Pont Director Eugene, great-great-granddaughter of Company Founder Eleuthere Irenee and heiress to a $5 million share in the chemical fortune, whose spectacular 1937 marriage to Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. (among the 1,300 guests: some 600 Du Ponts, 200 Roosevelts, President F.D.R., virtually the entire U.S. Cabinet) brought a lasting truce between the two bitterly warring families, but was itself a failure ending in a 1949 divorce, after which she embarked on another unhappy marriage, grew increasingly depressed and spent frequent periods in rest...
...just the completion of their annual "festival of the bear." All year long Tiwanda braves would hunt bear and finally, on this particular day, the largest bear of the season would be killed, prepared and eaten by every members of the community. Each brave, squaw and papoose had his share of bear meat, of bear brain, of bear eye, of bear bone, and, for dessert, of bear's fur, cooked in a special glasse...