Word: similarities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...program are prescribed for him in the form of required two-year courses entitled Contemporary Civilization and Humanities--shades of GE. These courses are given by top men from the Social Sciences and Humanities departments. The Contemporary Civilization course was first given in 1919, thus antedating Harvard's similar General Education courses by 27 years. The Humanities course was first given...
According to the Associated Press, a $43,000 deficit in last year's athletic budget prompted the Nasson move, which followed closely similar section at New Haven...
...Hummon seemed headed for almost as resounding a victory as Ol' Gene had ever managed. He had topped Thompson in the popular vote by 354,000 to 309,000, and piled up a landslide lead of 312 to 98 under Georgia's county unit system (roughly similar to the national electoral college). Governor Thompson promptly agreed to install Hummon in the Governor's Mansion as soon as the formality of the November general election was over; there was no point in waiting until Inauguration Day in January. Said Thompson, a Baptist: "The people giveth, the people taketh...
...swept-back wings with controls on their tips (see cut). This design may account for the fact that Pilot Derry felt none of the "compressibility" effects when flying in the transsonic speed range. But the DH-108 may have other improvements that are secret. A similar plane came apart in the air and killed Geoffrey de Havilland...
...highly specialized animal ... is practically in equilibrium with all phases of his environment... Is something similar, perhaps, happening to the scientist? Is the specialist, in the confines of his narrow discipline, failing to accept the challenge of unfamiliar territory, to risk the uncertainties and the tensions of coupling and interconnecting the many aspects of science? ... If this is so, he is no longer a true scientist...