Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your article points up the biggest weakness in teachers colleges today-the superfluous number of "methods" courses. We future teachers are mired in a curriculum of "how to teach" courses, while neglecting the most important aspect of teacher education, a well-rounded liberal arts background...
...invasion of the neighborhood by revenge-seeking Valiant Crowns. In the ambush arsenal: 20-gauge shotgun, .22-cal. rifle, two hunting knives, stacks of bricks, nine Molotov cocktails-gasoline-filled bottles with rag wicks, to be ignited just before the bombs were hurled. Wait Wanted. Against this grimly appropriate background, a U.S. Senate subcommittee, chaired by Missouri's Democratic Senator Thomas C. Hennings, started off an investigation of juvenile delinquency, with two days of hearings in Manhattan on what the Federal Government could do to help combat teen-age violence. Hennings & Co. heard plenty of suggestions-from Governor Nelson...
...fatigue, his successive operations. With a callousness that is often the byproduct of continuously observed suffering, doctors compete for reputation and experiment with various treatments, while the confused patient gains hope, loses it, and finally subsides in confusion. Awkward nurses blunder, the food drives patients to mutiny; in the background lurks the cut-price competition among sanatoria entrepreneurs, who often measure their profit margins by the pennies they save in the kitchen. Seen as an expose of the tuberculosis racket, The Rack would be notable as a muckraking novel alone...
...result of the application by Thompson to girl delinquents is unusual since all of the 50 girls would have been identified as potential offenders. Mrs. Glueck offers the explanation that the social pathology in the background of delinquent girls is far worse than in the background of boys. "Girl offenders are not brought to court unless they are really, seriously delinquent," she said...
...seems a reasonable assumption that the appearance of the SPT factors in the background of children not yet delinquent is a danger signal of budding criminal careers. This is presently being rigorously tested...