Word: specialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alvin C. (for Christian) Eurich, a specialist in educational psychology and a top man in testing techniques, outlined the curriculum for Minnesota's new General College in 1933. He decided that each student should prove knowledge of the news by passing a major examination in "Contemporary Affairs." Academic precedents were bruised when he rated the test as 20% of the student's total credit toward graduation. Since no college had ever before placed that much emphasis on the news, there was no test in existence to satisfy the need...
...Specialist. In Cleveland, on the day he was to receive an award for 20 years of driving without a traffic violation, Cab Driver Clarence Vogel got a ticket for jaywalking...
America, Professor Schlauch feared, was no longer for her. "I am afraid that the economic and political future at home is not auspicious, not even for a Chaucer specialist, if such a person has been and still is a Marxist (no matter how undogmatic) and doesn't intend to deny it; and if she moreover condemns the foreign policy leading...
...professor of Government. Graduate education in the social sciences as offered by the Littauer School, trains "generalists" and leads to advantageous government placement, while area training in foreign affairs, as provided by the Regional Studies Program, has also led to placement and rapid advancement. Cherington frowned, however, on the specialist schools of public administration which teach such subjects as budget compilation...
...rhythm section is one saving grace. Boogie-woogie specialist Sammy Price and drummer Art Trappier quadruple-handedly provide a strong driving beat that accomplishes much toward knitting the band closer together. Kaminsky's group plays jazz. It's one on the synthesized side...