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Word: sound (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Professor Barber put it, "knowledge does not come in fancy packages." But New College will not wander off into vague experimentalism either. Although strict course requirements, as well as academic departments, will be eliminated, the suggested alternative seems sound...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock, | Title: Attack on Academic Rigidity Calls for 'Major Departure' | 2/20/1959 | See Source »

...choice for deputy director of the International Cooperation Agency--on the ground that Labouisse registered as a Democrat in 1940. Again this month, when the Department recommended Labouisse for the directorship he was passed over in favor of James Riddleberger, happily a qualified diplomat but in addition apparently politically sound...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dollars for Diplomacy | 2/20/1959 | See Source »

...great a contribution to a sound program, however, has been the recognition that its organization must be inter-departmental and preferably House-oriented. The failure of the old non-honors program may in large part be attributed to its attempt to channel back into the department students who had rejected honors to escape the confines of departmentalization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Non-Honors Tutorial | 2/18/1959 | See Source »

...films. Even better were its first self-produced show, Yesterday's Newsreels, and its first adventure series, Cisco Kid. Others followed, including Men of Annapolis, West Point, Harbor Command, and this season's Dial 999 and Bat Masterson. Today Ziv employs 3,500 people, uses ten Hollywood sound stages where it produces more syndicated shows (32) than any of its competitors. Ziv charges $35 to $3,500 a week per show (depending on the size of the viewing city), grossed $42 million last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Pearl of the Indies | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

...America's educational framework is sound, the body of elementary and high school learning is far from healthy. U.S. schools still send graduates to college grossly unprepared for higher education, and many schools are still run. Hechinger reminds his readers, by such administrators as the Florida school official who said recently, "The training of our youth in sound practices in the operation of motor vehicles is as important as learning to read.'' Hechinger suggests some reforms well worth debating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Education Race | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

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