Word: understands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...really fantastic," said Gordon Page, the athletic department ticket manager, who has hired extra help to work 'round the clock on ticket orders. "I understand it's been 20 years since alumni were turned away...
...teaching staff ("Any white professors involved in the program would have to be Black in spirit in order to last. The same is true for 'Negro' professors"), specifically excludes the possibility of whites teaching black history ("The white man is unqualified to teach black history because he does not understand it") and finally wonders whether white students should be permitted to take black classes ("It may be necessary eventually to distinguish Black education for Blacks and Black education for whites...
...have to clarify the nature of the wall surrounding the Neolithic community," he said yesterday, "and try to understand its remarkably well-preserved architecture...
Despite neat formulas and equations in textbooks, chemistry is still an inexact science. At best, scientists only partly understand some of the turbulent processes that occur during chemical reactions; often they cannot accurately predict the end results. Now a California scientist has devised a method for making chemistry more exact: he mixes chemicals in a computer instead of a test tube...
...Melville, Gide and Faulkner, and three interviews that he gave over the years. In one of these interviews, he was asked what compliment most annoyed him. He replied: "Honesty, conscience, humanity-you know, all the modern mouthwasnes." Yet, these qualities best describe the man who struggled so ardently to understand what it was to be simply...