Word: textbooks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
From then on Holloway's Navy name was established-but in training and personnel rather than operational command. From 1947 to 1950 he was a successful superintendent of the Naval Academy, hiking academic standards, instituting a new leadership course for which he wrote half the textbook. The other half, on psychology, was written by a Johns Hopkins group. And after 30 uneventful months as commander of the Atlantic Fleet's Battleship-Cruiser Force, Holloway turned out yet another standout performance, as Chief of the Bureau of Naval Personnel from 1953-58, as the Navy came out of Korea...
Imaginative Lessons. For U.S. officials entrusted with reshaping policy after the warning-laden Nixon trip, the Puerto Rican advance is a textbook of imaginative lessons. In helping underdeveloped nations, the U.S. could well consider: ¶ A measure of tax forgiveness for corporations operating overseas, advocated by former Treasury Secretary George Humphrey to induce foreign investment. ¶ Support for big common markets-such as the proposed Latin American customs union-that will provide markets such as Puerto Rico has in the U.S. ¶ Official coolness to dictators, who are often corrupt and ultranationalistic. ¶ Greater tolerance for mixed economies...
Like many a health worker before him, Dr. Pinotti knew that the barbeiros flourish in the cracks of dirt-poor Brazilians' mud huts. The famed-Textbook of Medicine, edited by Manhattanites Cecil and Loeb, says flatly: "Prophylaxis consists in constructing houses so as to avoid cracks in the walls." Easier said than done. But Dr. Pinotti, once a poor boy in Sáo Paulo, had an idea: "One night when I was brooding over the problem, I remembered the ovenbird's nest.* As a boy, I used to throw stones at their nests, but the nests never...
...past eight months has had any effect in relation to the prep school, it has been to diminish the public conception of the private school as a "nest of snobs." While the larger private school, or even the very good public school, may offer a better and more varied textbook education, neither can provide the individual attention and the chance for personal development which, ideally anyway, the small private school gives
Correspondent Pollard asked Teacher Levine why she chose TIME as the class textbook. Her answer: "It is the most readable and complete newsmagazine in America...