Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this is the time of year for recriminations, and for resolutions to work continually rather than sporadically when the next term begins, resolutions not to get behind in courses, dreams of making reading period into a period for exploring special interests rather than memorizing texts and mesmorizing students. And, as any Lamont librarian can tell you, these resolutions will vanish with the month of January, returning only with...
...only in certain subjects. A fifth grade studying reading might have three groups-one reading at third-grade level, another at fifth-grade, the rest plunging into such classics as Moby Dick and The Swiss Family Robinson. The schools are also on the prowl for such students with a special talent as the eleven-year-old girl who shows promise of becoming a topnotch composer...
...special insurance problem was all in a day's work for Marsh & McLennan. "We insure anything," says President Herman Dunlap ("Dutch") Smith. Like Lloyds of London, M. & M. has grown big (2,720 employees, offices in 29 U.S. and foreign cities) by never turning down an acceptable risk, will as gladly work out insurance for a $20,000 cotton shipment as a $2,000,000 offshore oil-drilling rig, or a $20 million pipeline. While M. & M. does not carry the actual fire, casualty, loss, or accident insurance itself, it acts as an expert broker, helping companies place their...
...group of ten Hungarian refugees now staying in the Cambridge area will begin a special, intensive English course Wednesday, conducted by John M. Bullitt '43, associate professor of English, and Miss Christine Gibson of the Language Research Center...
...problem of the Suez Canal returns completely to its pre-October condition in the hands of the negotiators, it would be well to remember that something quite extraordinary and unprecedented occurred in the United Nations General Assembly during debates on the Israeli-French-British attack: the creation of a special U.N. Emergency Force, the first truly international police force in history. Its scope, of course, was and still is limited; but its significance, if it succeeds in Sinai and Suez, is broad indeed. As the armed representatives of the will of the U.N., the few thousand soldiers now in Egypt...