Word: strengthen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...than for the acceptance of the teacher. Teacher approval tends to weaken peer approval." Students thought up most assignments, were "encouraged to do as much or as little reading as their individual needs seemed to require." The whole idea was for students to develop the "we feeling" and to strengthen "such commonalities as the learner must have in order to be an accepted member of his society." "All were encouraged to speak first and then to think through what they had said." Among the authors' other recommendations: ¶Though the teacher must stick around in case he is needed...
...ended a chapter in high politics that began a month before, when Stevenson volunteered to go to Europe in advance of the Paris conference to help sell his friends overseas on the plans to strengthen NATO. Stevenson later had some second thoughts on the practicality of such a trip, and the idea died. But Secretary of State John Foster Dulles seized at the opportunity to present a bipartisan U.S. approach to the NATO sessions, asked Stevenson to take on a job as his special adviser (TIME...
...LOVE POSSESSED, by James Gould Cozzens. The best U.S. novel of the year, wrought of many kinds of love and their power to strengthen or warp character, make or break the lives of man or woman. Through its lawyer hero, the book also deals with something most U.S. novelists have forgot about-man's responsibility...
...Muscle Builders. Ever since the dawn of independence in 1947, Nehru and his government have been working to strengthen India's economic muscles. Between 1951 and 1956, India's $5 billion first five-year plan increased the country's total agricultural output 18%. With the second five-year plan, New Delhi's economists hoped to raise per capita income to $69 a year, and double electric power output. Above all, they planned to treble steel production, thereby give India the heavy industry that all the world's underdeveloped nations yearn for as the badge...
...prayer for Pastor Schmutzler, and told his congregation that, in fact, the church had already defeated the Communists in their campaign to win German youth away from religion: "Our younger generation has a more conscious faith than when we were young. Young people sink themselves in the Bible to strengthen their faith...