Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...score in the 60-70 percentile range in nationwide tests of college freshmen reading skills. "At Stanford, that's low," explains LAC Director Michael McHargue. "People here don't know that anything below 90% exists." LAC-10 instructors teach students how to skim a chapter in a textbook for the important points and how to build up their vocabulary...
...Boulevard. After graduating from Yale Law in 1958, she became an assistant U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, and later set up a law firm with her husband and friends in 1962. She also taught at U.C.L.A. Law, wrote a handbook on antitrust cases and was co-author of a textbook, Federal Civil Practice...
...first I've heard of it," Whatley said, looking up from his architecture textbook at the Francis K. Loeb Library in Gund Hall...
Eckstein said later that the economy "got so sick last winter that the Administration had to do exactly what Professor Samuelson's textbook prescribed...
Flexner's Century of Struggle, which depicted the women's rights movement from 1820 to 1920, is a sterling example of a work which was relatively unknown, although respected in small circles, and which has suddenly shot into vogue. First published in 1959, the work immediately became the textbook of the suffrage movement for women's history scholars. There was no radical feminism, as it is known today, to support or influence the writing of the book...