Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...examinations in the senior year and the possibility of obtaining a degree with honors on the basis of distinctive work in the regular program alone. Tutorial, as such, is non-existent, but laboratory work and the availability of the faculty for individual conferences fill the gap between lecture and textbook...
...long flights over the desolate Arctic, the Army's big Alaska-based B-29s were writing a new textbook on polar flying. Last week they scribbled a new chapter in a hurry...
...This is substantiated by Taft's contention that "There is no doubt that a Communist cell was tolerated by Mr. Lilienthal in the TVA." A check of all the facts would show relatively few government agencies free from the infiltration of eight to 12 Communists, the size of the textbook-defined cell. If Mr. Taft is frightened by cell-infection, his fear ought best be focused on the Washington scene, where the presence of a dozen Communists in any department of several thousands would surprise no one. On the question of Mr. Lilienthal and the Atomic Energy Commission, a relationship...
Genes Not All. This classical explanation of heredity, taught in every biology textbook, is not wholly satisfactory. Some cells, notably certain cancer cells in mice, seem to develop oddly, defying their hereditary genes. At Indiana University, Dr. Tracy M. Sonneborn found that the one-celled animal paramecium sometimes did this...
Americans might profit from this intelligent, if unoriginal, view of their cultural well-being. But the Soviets who must rely on "Lzvestia" for all contact with America will not be benefited by this pre-occupation with its maladies and Ehrenburg's textbook remedies. And if friends of peace left that the visit of the Russian writer ushered in a a period of greater understanding, the articles in "Izvestia" will cause a cold shower of disappointment...