Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first time residents in the Boston-Cambridge area can receive course credit toward a Harvard degree by following a series of television lectures. Robert G. Albion, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History, last night conducted the premiere of the new program over WGBH-TV, Channel...
...credit toward the degree Adjunct in Arts, viewers must attend several conferences and take mid-term and final examinations in addition to following the television lessons. Both the conferences and examinations will be at Harvard...
...both individual and group conferences, the subjects discuss the factors behind delinquency and other topics that lead them toward a clearer understanding of themselves. Boys get into trouble, one subject stated, "because they have no money and no one will give them any money so they go out and steal and so it ends up into trouble and they get put in jail." Another subject noted, "In my short period attending here so far, I have never since I can remember, felt greater mentally...
Today architects are developing uneasy qualms as the glass-curtain wall begins to turn whole streets into reflecting canyons and reinforced concrete seems headed toward a kind of new brutalism. As a result, the buildings Aalto has been quietly erecting among the pine forests and birch trees of his native Finland are coming up for a searching reevaluation. Result: Aalto's reputation is once again skyrocketing...
...into now, says Ed Cole, is "the era of specific driving needs." More and more Americans want a big car for big driving jobs, a small runabout for short hops. Thus, having long since realized the dream of a car for almost every family, the U.S. now is sweeping toward two cars in every garage. The compacts are speeding up the trend, since two Corvairs can be bought for the price of the biggest dressed-up Chevy...