Word: summing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...committee found a bone in its throat. "1964 was not a vintage year for broadcasting," blurted Peabody Juror Paul Porter, onetime Federal Communications Commission chairman. It was, he continued, "a year when the intelligent adult television audience has been consistently shortchanged by networks wooing teen-agers." In sum, a year of so much "dreary sameness and steady conformity" that "some of the Peabody judges were tempted to take a sabbatical and not make any awards...
...fundamental reality in the universe is the fact of becoming or change. Denying that there is any such thing as unchangeable substance in reality, he argued that the enduring objects of the world must be understood as sequences of "occasions of experience"-in other words, a man is the sum total of all the events and experiences in his life. Whitehead believed that the universe was in the midst of a "creative advance," as the possibilities of experience came into actuality...
...bill authorizes the spending of $1.3 billion-a relatively small sum considering the fact that public education in the U.S. is an annual $34 billion business. The real breakthrough lies in the fact that the Federal Government has overcome a longstanding taboo and become a full-scale partner in grade-school education, both public and private. Thomas Braden, chairman of California's State Board of Education, sums it up this way: "With the rapid moving of families in our nation, the interlocking economy, the sense of a national community, it is archaic to think that education...
...shape of the canvas is not determined by an arbitrary circumference; it is part and parcel of the shapes of the fields of color. Each chevron marks off a parallelogram of different size but of similar proportions. The whole constantly intermingles with the parts and is more than their sum...
...Sum Robinson in the 440 and Jim smith in the mile should get most of their competition from teammates. John bakkensen, Bill , and John Micketts should sweep the discus for Harvard: and Aggrey A wori, Harvey Thomas, and Pardee--If he competes-may well do the same in the broad jump...