Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because the New Haven police expressed "great satisfaction" with the conduct of the event, it is very likely that a special hill climb with Yale will be held in the spring at New Haven, Chamberlain said...
Secretary of State Dulles said a definite announcement will be made in two or three days on whether or not the president will cancel his special trip to Paris...
Though President Eisenhower offered no definite plan for encouraging bright students, Health. Education & Welfare Secretary Marion Folsom hinted that the federal funds that now go into the vocational education program might well be used to raise straight academic standards. The University of Michigan set up a Special Science Advisory Committee in the hope of finding ways to increase the number of science Ph.D.s by 50%. New Mexico Superintendent of Public Instruction Georgia Lusk proposed that high school science and math requirements be doubled. But while New York City was also making noises about increasing science requirements, it was still trying...
Pretensions & Spitballs. Author Wilson's view of life may sometimes seem like that of an undertaker assessing the most likely customer, but there is no denying the sneering precision of his observations. U.S. readers, without suffering the Englishman's special anguish which comes from a feeling that he is improperly dressed, may acknowledge the deadly accuracy of some of Wilson's catarrhy spitballs. One character sneers at his pretentious brother: "Ah, I see we have a new class now. There used to be those who had the tele [TV] and those who were above...
...much the fool even to be evil. The worldly-wise (including the reader) are sharply reproached by Gimpel's foolishness and yet they are also apt to envy it, for it is illuminated by the saintly simpleton's strange, special kind of dignity. Unpretentiously, almost crudely sketched, Gimpel is an unforgettable character, deeply moving in his gentle submission to all blows, his dogged love of a worthless wife, his quiet expectation of the end: "When the time comes I will go joyfully. Whatever may be there, it will be real, without complication, without ridicule, without deception...