Word: system
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both Buck and Ernst are reluctant to initiate a system for checking bursar's cards at the library's entrances, preferring to "discourage" obvious interlopers. However, Ernst said, some sort of policing may soon become necessary, if matters got worse...
Prospects for the Clark-Porter resolution's getting through Congress are dim. But the spreading U.S. debate on ways and means of working out a world system of law hold nothing but promise for a nation in search of a policy that can contribute to a just and enduring peace...
...weeks behind the Methodist groundbreaking for a college at Rocky Mount and three years behind the brand-new $19 million campus of Baptist-affiliated Wake Forest College in Winston-Salem. All were additions to Dixie's best college complex, fed by Dixie's best public school system. In the center of the Piedmont, engineers mapped sites for nuclear, chemical and industrial research labs in a new, 4,000-acre "Research Triangle." East of Charlotte's booming suburbs, Alcoa let $40 million worth of contracts to expand its aluminum plant. Over the South's best highway...
...Chapel Hill. Its regular faculty members roamed far and wide, by World War I came near their dream of using "the whole state for a campus." Sample of their work: road-planning "institutes" at Chapel Hill (1914-19) kicked off the South's first big, well-planned highway system; statewide high school debates focused on the need for good school libraries, got them going; extension service teachers organized part-time refresher courses for country doctors, inspired three medical schools (North Carolina U., Duke and Wake Forest); a community drama bureau set up three permanent historical dramas, e.g., The Lost...
Instead, competition should be devoted to the problem of eliminating poverty and lessening the gap between the advanced and the underdeveloped countries of the world. "Our goal is not a homogeneous world dominated by any given system," Munoz declared...