Word: upper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...principle of paper-writing is certainly recognised in the lower-level General Education courses, which in their attempt to bestir sluggard minds, usually require at least four papers apiece. Instructors of departmental and upper-level General Education courses, however, often require no more than an hour exam. Hour exams do serve to test one's mental agility. And they make a good game, in which one sees how well he can furnish a blue-book from the warehouse of a vacant mind. Even if one does know the material, hour exams permit little time for serious deliberation of a question...
...Austrian College Society in Alpbach, Tyrol, gives an August seminar on the theme of "Knowledge and Action." At Bad Ischl a discussion in economics is arranged from August 28 to September 2 on the subject of "The Village in Relation to Present-day Industrial Development" by the Upper Austrian Society for Economic Sciences...
Restoring the weather ship would cost an estimated $2 to 3 million, but is the least expensive way of "providing the frequent and complete surface and upper air data" necessary to discover trends in storm speeds, tracks, and intensities, he said...
Five Fingers, based on a true war-time espionage tale by the German military attache in Ankara, could have been an important study of how a little man from the lower class becomes a big man from the upper class. As the movie develops, however, it is evident that director Joseph L. Mankiewicz wanted to produce merely an amusing little spy thriller, and that's exactly what he's done...