Word: skimps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...teachers, all too often, are trained in schools that offer substandard instruction, skimp courses in academic subjects in favor of courses on teaching method, give far too little practice teaching in actual classrooms. Ticking off these familiar failings this week, the Ford Foundation's President Henry Heald, sometime (1952-56) chancellor of New York University and an old teacher himself (during the '30s he was a professor of civil engineering at Chicago's Armour Institute of Technology), announced an impressive new foundation gift aimed at achieving "a breakthrough in teacher education.'' The donation...
Jaime's parents, who skimp to keep him in rosin and catgut (Papa Laredo works at a desk job in a hospital), are reluctant to turn him loose as yet in the full-scale concert field. (He has played only a handful of concerts.) Too many, they realize, are the prodigies who "burn themselves out" in their adolescence and are never heard of again. As it is, the boy's life is far from normal. Now living in Philadelphia, he practices four hours a day, goes to Curtis three afternoons a week and plays chamber music two more...
...aircraft, British designers tried to make great leaps into supersonics, and crashed short of the mark. U.S. planemakers usually test every part of a new plane in metallurgical laboratories, wind tunnels, etc. before it flies. But British designers, partly because of a shortage of facilities, build a complete plane, skimp on preflight tests. On top of that, they generally build only one to three prototypes; thus when a bug is discovered, the entire test program must be halted until the fault is corrected. The U.S., on the other hand, builds prototypes in batches of ten or more...
...conducting revivals, filling in for ministers and addressing church groups throughout the country. Riding the airlines from engagement to engagement with a bagful of books, he tries to find time to read. On such Christian junketings, "God's Groceryman," as some of his admirers call him, does not skimp his business duties; he keeps a sharp eye peeled for new merchandising ideas and wastes no time in putting them into practice. "I have to go home and sell a bean once in a while," he says...
...else scrap the whole Selective Service system and substitute Universal Military Training. Draft officials sense that students and everyone else of draft age now know they will have to serve sometime. With a dwindling manpower supply they contend that this is the opportune time to decide whether to skimp on deferments or institute UMT. But until President Eisenhower and Congress decide which course they will take, the present confusion of deferments and increasingly high draft calls will continue...