Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet satellite appeared "like a star and brighter than Jupiter." To Washington's Democratic Senator Henry Jackson, it was a partisan reason for proclaiming "a week of shame and danger." To Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington, it meant a frenzied call for a special session of Congress. To retired Defense Secretary Charles Wilson, it was merely "a nice technical trick." To hundreds of U.S. scientists, it was a marvelous scientific-technical achievement, a triumph of mind over universal matter-and at the same time a last-chance signal to beware of onrushing Russian technology...
More freedom for students who want to live outside of University dormitories and Houses may result from the study of a special sub-committee of the Administrative Board, Dean Watson stated yesterday...
...supplementary defense appropriation approved either at a special session of Congress or early in its next session is mandatory. An overall coordination of scientific and military effort in rocket research is imperative. And, necessary for the attainment of the other objectives, a general realization of the state of American science and a discarding of former smug self-satisfaction are musts. With these revisions in our outlook and actions, the United States stands to gain perhaps more than it lost after the Sputnik launching...
...only the next year, in the fall of 1896 that there appeared in the catalogue any evidence that there was a literature in the United States. In that year, there is a notation at the end of the English section that graduates might engage in "special study" on the topic of American Literature with Professor Barrett Wendell. This...
...there was a professor at Harvard with a straw-colored beard, who stalked through the Yard with a cigarette dangling from his mouth. He--Barrett Wendell-- put an end to the university's avoidance of a national literature. His "special study" graduate course remained stubbornly alone in the catalogue until 1902, when it was joined by a course which has been given at Harvard, or at least listed in the catalogue, for 55 years: English 33hf, which was changed to English 7 in a general course renumbering in 1935. The course was called "The History of American Literature...