Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next step, says Allen, is "visitation. You could have beautiful buildings and train your teachers until they were Ph.D.s, but if you didn't get out and knock on doors and let them know you're interested, you wouldn't get them to church. You can come and visit one of our classes, and then two or three of the members will be out to visit you the next week, instead of just saying, 'We're glad to have you.' We are glad to have you, and we're coming out after...
...disappoint their countrymen: Hungary may be a small onion in the international goulash of sport, but it is a country with a determination to win. Explains ex-Sprinter Jozsef Sir (pronounced sheer), commissar of the track and field section of the sports council of the Ministry of Culture: "We train. That is our secret...
...spot the budding genius in time? Ideally, said Weir, it should be done at the secondary level. But this is often impossible because, of 22 or so schools in the U.S. that train teachers to handle ex ceptional children, all but two schools are interested in training them for "the exceptionally handicapped, rather than the exceptionally bright." Added Caltech's Frederick Lindvall: "There's a stigma attached to being called a brain. The athletic department is much more successful than we are at singling out its exceptional students...
...George P. Berry, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, yesterday backed Health Secretary Marion Folsom's stand in opposing increased federal aid for medical research at this time. Folsom had testified last week that medical school facilities were presently inadequate to train specialists for additional research programs...
Medical schools are essential to developments in medical research, Berry argued, since the schools must train the scientists whose discoveries lead to progress. "Research centers are islands independent in themselves," away from many of the main trends of medical progress, he added...