Word: unitized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This year BBC's television unit will begin what Program Director Cecil McGivern calls "the real guts of television" -a series of documentary studies of coal production, infantile paralysis, housing, other problems. McGivern believes that television is "far more effective than the written word, the spoken word, or the movies. ... It will be the biggest social force ever...
Mize is so sure that his methods are practical that he has just bought another poorhouse and hopes to open a second unit of St. Francis. He is now out raising money to pay for it and to meet St. Francis' $22,000 budget for next year. New contributors are sometimes surprised to discover that Mize's own salary is the smallest on the Home's full-time payroll ($25 a week, less withholding tax). Said a hardheaded admirer last week: "The man is a dreamer. He's raised $40,000 in the past two years...
Despite 10 returning lettermen, Combes finds himself in somewhat of a spot, since the first-string Whiz Kids allowed other members of the squad little time to work as a unit. In addition to the six-feet, seven-inch center Green, Combes is building his team around captain-guard Jack Burmaster, an excellent playmaker, and Dwight "Dike" Eddleman, the famed all-around star of three sports, football, basketball, and track...
...present the student with an unorganized mass of facts which are supposed to constitute a course. Evidence supporting this view can be drawn from the increased reliance on such crutches as "Hymarx," not because they contain the facts about a course, but because they present it as an integrated unit. This lack of organization can also be found at the next level--the field of concentration. A student takes a number of courses in a given field, which may cover an extremely broad area of knowledge. If the student himself does not find some method of relating this conglomeration...
...reading depend for their value upon the capability of the individual instructor who conducts the meeting or assigns the reading. They can be and are valuable; but they are more devoted to penetration into the subject matter of a given course than to moulding various courses into a solid unit. Even within the limit of one course, they usually are designed to provide more facts rather than to correlate those already learned...