Word: specialize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...supplement the current historically oriented science instruction in General Education, the committee, chaired by Jerome S. Bruner, professor of Psychology, recommended that new Natural Science courses be instituted which will explore in considerable details a special aspect of some branch of science. According to the committee, a sub-committee of the C.E.P. these courses should "(1) communicate a knowledge of the fundamental principles of a special science and (2) give the student an idea of the methods of science as they are known today...
...following. This is actually the only "routine" of the business editor. As a member of the board, however, he is expected to contribute more than the occasional dayman slot. Suggestions and gathering-in of new accounts are encouraged, as in the servicing of regular accounts. Work on the various special publications, such as the Confidential Guide to Courses and the Guide to Career Opportunities, is encouraged, if not demanded...
Just as the editorial, photo or news board member finds satisfaction in seeing his handiwork in the paper and in the special publications, so the business editor feels some sense of accomplishment when he reads the CRIMSON...
...brand-new advertising character: "the Massey-Ferguson kind of a man." As the first farm-equipment manufacturer to launch a network TV campaign, Toronto's Massey-Ferguson Ltd.. the world's largest maker of tractors and self-propelled combines, described their man as "a special kind of man; he's a doer, not a talker. He's a get-up-early, keep-'em-rolling kind...
...Ghost Train, Belgrade's whole diplomatic corps is invited to travel by special train to Zagreb for Liberation Day. The uneasy diplomats are herded into "three long coaches made of painted and carved timber." The locomotive ("abandoned before the war by an American film company [and] tied together by wire") is stoked "white-hot" by "hairy men in cloth caps who looked like Dostoevsky's publishers." At the stop of Slopsy Blob ("named after the famous Independence fighter"), the roof of the ambassadors' coach carries away most of the top of the station and lays the diplomatic...