Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Under the Apple Tree (Art Jarrett; Victor; Andrews Sisters; Decca). The blithest of the war-inspired songs, now up among the bestsellers...
Everybody Chipped In. In December 1929, unfazed by the depression, a small group of men pooled their savings, started a little company giving maintenance and replacement-parts service to privately owned passenger amphibians. The shop was set up in an old tree-shaded garage in Baldwin, L.I., with less than 20 officers and employes. President and chairman was Leroy R. Grumman, who had engineering degrees from Cornell and M.I.T., experience in naval aviation (he enlisted as a machinist's mate, second class, resigned as a lieutenant), and a wealth of aeronautical ideas. Leon A. ("Jake") Swirbul, the vice president...
...graphic analogy, the Committee represented knowledge as a tree of which philosophy was the trunk, with the various fields as branches and the facts themselves as minute leaves. Harvard professors were criticized because many of them "seem to believe that then job is only to present as many as possible of the important facts in their field," without attempting to integrate these facts into more general material...
...tutorial system, it was felt, can do much to fill the gaps in the educational program, but its importance must not rest on mere automatic preparation for divisionals. Tutors have the responsibility of showing the tutees how their own field fits into this tree of knowledge. Thus a liberal education consists of a broad perspective of all knowledge...
...Grant Study in Social Adjustments", to give the full dress title, ocoupies the made-over squash courts and swimming pool known as "Big Tree." Here a seven-man crew: a physician, and anthropologist, a physiologist, two psychiatrists, a psychologist, and a persomel worker join in a cooperative, correlative effort and by studying selected groups of Sophomores, are attempting to analyze the forces that have produced normal young...