Word: subbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hoping not, for as Jordan ominously pointed out. "Let one line loosen, and all the others will loosen too." Although Jordan was quoted with reference to the present ethical crisis in college football, observers fear that his association with the College has lead him to attach several secondary sub-meanings to his portentous words...
...University of California (TIME, Oct. 31) was a basic physical discovery which had far-reaching effects. In Britain's Nuclear Power, Professor O. R. Frisch of the University of Cambridge tells how the discovery has affected scientific reasoning about the smallest things in the universe, the sub-atomic particles, and about the biggest thing, the universe itself...
...able to get the submarine into a relatively shallow drydock. "Sir," replied Ernie King, "we've raised her 130 feet in the open sea. We've brought her 130 miles, and I guess we can raise her a couple of feet more." King did raise the sub, and for the salvage won the first of his four Distinguished Service Medals...
...promissa iuvant? Tua quid praesagia, Gallup?" (Carefree translation: The seers saw not your defeat, poor soul-vain prayers, vain promises, vain Gallup poll!) Lauding his modesty, Higham quoted Truman's supposed resume of his first day's activity after returning to Independence in 1953: "Cistas ego viatorias sub tegulas retuli." (Approximately: I took the suitcases up to the attic...
Discharging all the sub-standard teachers, however, would not solve the problem. A teacher shortage already exists in this country: experts estimate the nation must find 16 new teachers between now and 1965 for every ten teachers presently on the job, and on the college level it must find between 16 and 25 new ones by 1970 for every ten presently employed. Finding any teachers--qualified or not--has become a difficult enough task these days. It would hardly seen sensible to start a recruitment campaign for more by discharging a large number of Negro teachers. But it would seem...