Word: bounded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...telling symptoms of a quiet revolution wrought by the historic Education Act of 1944. Under the act, British schooling ceased to be an upper-class privilege. Today any child mentally able to make the grade is entitled to a free secondary and university education, a situation unthinkable in caste-bound Britain before World...
...ordered to lie flat on the muddy ground for 15 minutes while a sergeant was summoned. Last week every daily newspaper in the capital city of Reykjavik was spread with flaming headlines. The "intruders" proved to be two officials of the Icelandic Civil Aviation Administration and two American pilots bound for a hangar where the Americans' plane was being repaired. A U.S. spokesman hastily explained that it was a mistake on both sides: the area where the men were halted was open during the day but restricted at night...
...grow in a smooth upward curve, but in a series of jumps. It has become so big and dynamic that when one of its major segments slacks off the pace, another segment begins to pick up speed. For these reasons, many economists believe that any future downturns are bound to be milder and briefer than in the past. Furthermore, the economy's built-in stabilizers are becoming steadily more effective. Unemployment funds and pension plans are rapidly covering more people with more dollars. The Federal Reserve Board has learned about increasing or cutting the money supply to help control...
...Curiously, 40 per cent of those now belonging to no religious group wished to raise their children in the faith in which they were raised. On the basis of this data, we are encouraged to believe that the tradition in which these students were raised neither made them feel bound to it nor did it make them so resentful that they could see no value...
...Tillich, then, a University must by its very nature transcend mere secular considerations; it is an institution dedicated to matters of ultimate concern. For teachers with less of the Tillichian "vision," however, the questions of religion in education appear more controversial, for they are bound to earthly considerations of sect and creed...