Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With classic simplicity, the end came in the third round. Johansson flicked a textbook left hand, then let loose the punch he had been talking about for months: a straight right hand backed up by all the power in his broad-shouldered, 196-lb. body. With devastating accuracy it found a small opening between Patterson's raised gloves, caught him squarely in the face (see cut). Patterson literally rose six inches into the air before thudding to the canvas on the seat of his white satin pants. He wobbled up at the count of nine, and stared bewildered...
...contributing to a series of 60 films which are being developed for use in conjunction with regular classroom sessions. I. Bernard Cohen, associate professor of the History of Science, is serving as an adviser in the writing of the sections dealing with the history of science in the course textbook...
...most important cold-war textbook lesson of the year is a step-by-step analysis of last autumn's Quemoy crisis prepared by U.S. military and diplomatic agencies in recent weeks. Its gist...
...worked out to avoid ambiguity and to escape incorrect but justifiable answers. For example in number three, the words heat and are necessary to make heat impossible for the answer. It is probably harder to compose such a program than it is to cover the same material in a textbook passage. The machine material must be clear and self-contained, because the machine is the only source, and cannot clarify itself as a teacher...
...like individual tutors, and indeed the machines seem more accurate than many of its rivals in Cambridge. He points out that there is a continual interchange between the program and the student, and that since the student is always active, manipulating the machine, he avoids the stupor of textbook-reading or lecture-drowze. Skinner points out that, "like a good tutor, the machine insists that a given point be thoroughly understood, either frame by frame or set, before the student moves on." And perhaps most importantly, the machine, like a good tutor, substantiates and corroborates right answers and quickly points...