Word: view
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a look at your cover of Feb. 2, I shudder that the affairs of our nation are in the hands of these men. Before learning their identity, I thought that in view of the oncoming baseball season you had dug skeletons out of the bleachers of old Ebbets Field...
...wiry man with the booming voice refuted the story at the Yale swimming carnival of 1948 when he abruptly leaped into the pool, swam its width to resounding cheers. Once he went to the bottom of the pool in a diving helmet for a fish-eye view, quickly corrected a flaw in the stroke of one of his swimmers...
...blow apart their telephone lines by firing shotguns out the window (148 such cases in Chicago last New Year's Eve), with farmers who harvest the lines with their crops (corn-picking time is a nightmare for repairmen), with homeowners who are jealous of their picture-window view ("They come at me like a bear," says one foreman, "if they don't like where I put a pole"). He must also be ready for the occasional lonely housewife who meets him in a negligee. Rule of thumb: get out, and come back when hubby is home...
...students; it will come as a natural consequence of exploration, of "getting around" in their subjects. Methods are best introduced, not in the abstract, but in action. The fall freshman seminar will teach methodology by exploring limited subjects, each teacher deciding on a subject and its limits with a view to best showing a group of about thirteen students how he works, and how they can work, in using his discipline...
Agreeing with Raubinger's charge that any evaluation of high schools in terms of the Merit winners and semi-finalists they produce is "foolish," Wilbur J. Bender, Dean of Admissions, said he entirely supported the view that national testing should not determine college placement...