Word: widened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...religion itself, of promoting religion in a country and a world where people are indifferent to it." For the specific problems, Ramsey has prescribed some solid measures. Through widespread recruitment and expansion of training facilities, the margin of new clergymen over deaths and retirements is slowly beginning to widen; and last week the church got its first fulltime recruiter of clergymen...
...ineffective. Its usefulness depends on the failure of Cuba, and Cuba will not fail; the island will not crumble and fall into the sea, and so long as the U.S. has some control over its people's hunger, it will continue to be an issue. It will widen the splits between left and right in the hemisphere to the extent where neither we nor the other Alliance countries can administer the apolitical aid program we want. Above all, it will again and again demand military action from the U.S. with all the fire that invasion and retaliation can involve...
...largely ceremonial figurehead -"an announcer of ambassadors" in his scornful words, who "reigns but does not rule." Presently the President is chosen by a college of 80,000 electors: municipal and departmental officials, members of Parliament, and representatives of France's Overseas Territories. De Gaulle seeks to widen this mandate...
...fulfills conception of a General Education. The common purpose has been out while the function of each has become more specialized for an elementary Department, to take in less- students for whom the might be too difficult, or to freshmen who dislike , say. These are , not always explicit, that widen splits in the program...
Admittedly, the lecture system has limitations. It tends to induce a certain amount of passivity on the part of the student; it tends to widen the gap between student and instructor; it tends to over-emphasize the position of one authority, and the student is in danger of coming out of the lecture of even an undogmatic professor in a dogmatic frame of mind. Moreover, it can be abused. A few lecturers are unprepared and disorganized. Some, with the power of hypnotic verbalization, manage to hold their audiences through sheer personality rather than because they have anything important...