Word: superior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major area of continuing disagreement has been on the problem of on-site inspections inside the Soviet Union. The Russian military men try to keep the number of aliens moving freely about their installations to a minimum. They consider their superior security a major advantage over the West, and see in all inspections systems an attempt at espionage...
Admissions procedures have become incredibly complicated. The stairway to intellectual paradise is blocked with piles of papers, covered with statistics and words, words, words. National Merit test scores (used to distinguish the brilliant student from the merely superior one) go into each girl's folder along with College Entrance Examination Board scores. Numerous reports and transcripts attempt to reveal the full picture of the applicant's secondary school record and personal background. Her principal and two teachers of her own choice write recommendations--often so hazy and meaningless that the Committee on Admissions must request further information. A detailed discussion...
...aids to teachers faced with presenting their subject in a new manner, Bruner recommended comprehensive teaching manuals, seminars led by teachers with superior training, and, whenever possible. Saturday morning lectures given by scholars from local colleges and universities...
...Eisenhower brothers: ". . . Milton Eisenhower is actually Dwight Eisenhower's superior and boss within the Communist Party . . . For [the former President], there is only one possible word to describe his purposes and his actions. That word is treason...
Many students find that mediocre grades encourage them to consider other fields, not because they are unable to enter the field of scholarship, but because they have performed at the top of their group in the past, and have come to assume that they will do superior work in the future. As a result, they tend to seek one of he more 'humanistic' professions, such as law or medicine, when they find their pure academic skills inadequate...