Word: use
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interesting aspect of the drive was the failure of contributors to specify individual charities on their donations. Only $122 was designated for special use, most of it going to the American Friends Service Committee. PBH was the leading charity designated at Harvard...
Many so-called "unconscious and irrational" motives are really quite the opposite, Bauer went on. "I don't see why a man is more rational to buy a car for transportation than for status, for instance. Use of appeals to this type of motive have, moreover, brought them to the center of consciousness," Bauer argued...
...movement. During World War II, when the government had to teach men French, German, Italian and other languages and had to teach them in a hurry, it was found that a far greater emphasis on actual speaking of the language was particularly effective. Tape recorders were pressed into use and men taught foreign languages by actual imitation of the sounds that they heard coming over the tape. When the war ended, Cornell was the first college to pick up this idea, using it on an experimental basis. By 1950 it had proved itself so successful that it was made...
Another facet of the new methods now being employed here is the use of the "machine system" (tape recorders). "We are starting this in one of our elementary French courses," Frohock notes, "but we are far behind such colleges as Wesleyan and Columbia. They have many of these essential practice laboratories, we have only one which has just been started this year." Professors Henry Hatfield and Harry Levin are not quite so enthusiastic on the subject of tape recorders, the former remarking that "we haven't gone overboard on machines, but we are waiting to see how they work...
...they fight, self-determination and freedom from colonial rule, have in the past been pre-eminently associated with the U.S., they argue. They are fond of drawing parallels between the eighteenth-century struggle of Americans to throw off British rule and their own efforts today. They strongly resent American use of the word "terrorists" to refer to EOKA, declaring that this group is the Cypriot equivalent of our own "Minute...