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Word: specializes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major complaint is that the tutorial bibliography, a list of books for which undergraduates are held responsible on general examinations, has become too rigid a guide for students. Many members of the Department feel that students only cover the necessary sections of the bibliography, and never develop special interests, either independently or in tutorial...

Author: By Christopher Jencks, | Title: Curriculum Reappraisal Planned by English Dept. | 3/27/1957 | See Source »

...tutorial bibliography was designed to prevent tutors from devoting tutorial exclusively to their special interests, and to give the Department specific material on which to base general examinations...

Author: By Christopher Jencks, | Title: Curriculum Reappraisal Planned by English Dept. | 3/27/1957 | See Source »

...repudiation of the report was in special reference to one sentence of Aisner's, which read, "In view of Smith's irresponsible and malicious misrepresentations and their compelling implication that the funds of the paper have been misappropriated by me, I felt entirely justified in withholding these documents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HYRC Planning Committee Votes To Repudiate Aisner's Criticism | 3/26/1957 | See Source »

Three to Watch. By one method or another, heart surgeons can now correct an impressive number of defects, including patent ducts, narrowing of the aorta, aneurysms (ballooning blisters) of the aorta, holes between the walls of either auricles or ventricles, scarred and narrowed valves. Three problems are getting special attention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Surgery's New Frontier | 3/25/1957 | See Source »

...more they observed him during his first months on the job as night janitor in 1951, the more the pupils and teachers of the Edwin Markham Elementary School in the Portland, Ore. school district began to realize that there was something special about shy, quiet Horace Bixby. Because of the Depression, "Bix" had never finished college. But he had an obvious talent for science and mechanics-and an even more important knack for getting along with children. He brought them birds and fish to study and care for. He built them an incubator, a model cloud chamber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Janitor | 3/25/1957 | See Source »

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