Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sciences and Mathematics programs have also undergone revisions, with a particularly strong emphasis on biology and natural history courses and a new advanced math courses giving a solid introduction to calculus. There has been a particularly large demand recently for the Physics and Chemistry courses which are electives in the upper two classes, and the teaching of these subjects is now being brought up to date with the assistance of an M.I.T. science teaching program. But this does not mean that the school feels an increased need to push all students ahead in the sciences. One math teacher observes that...
...cities, however, the curricula are generally excellent. These schools offer a broad selection of courses, equalling in scope many passable northern school systems. Along with the traditional offering of physics, chemistry, trigonometry, and solid geometry, Southern urban schools are now introducing physiology, advanced mathematics, German, and geology into their programs. The basic requirements in urban schools are similar to their northern counterparts--four years of English, three of math, two of science and social studies--and college-bound students take a great many more than these...
...guess," she said, "is that about half of our pupils take about four solids and no more than ten percent take five or more at any time. Many pupils take five solids the semester they take safety"--a required half-year course, which is considered a solid...
...white-collar workers saddles industry with high fixed costs that reduce corporate flexibility. The payoff, says Wernick, will come in the future: "Industry hired its salaried professionals to keep pace with technology, to cut future cost and increase productivity. For the long term, such workers give industry a solid investment base to reduce future costs as it produces future products. It will be able to pick up very rapidly without increasing costs much...
...give him the makings of The Blackboard Jungle (TIME, Oct. 11, 1954), a lurid assault on delinquency in big-city classrooms. His second novel, Second Ending, led him into the sickly undergrowth of drug addiction. In his latest fictional safari, Explorer Hunter's credentials are a bit more solid; he lived in a Long Island suburb for four years. What he still lacks are the credentials of the novelist-shortcomings that not even the theme of adultery can handily overcome...