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Word: processing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is, however, little doubt that something must be done to make the summer educationally productive. A vacation period may be vital to the maturing process and education outside the classroom, but it is inefficient, not only because it wastes plant hours, but also because it fails to utilize a third of teachers' available time...

Author: By Stephen F. Jencks, | Title: Schools, Colleges Experiment With Full-Time Operation: Four Quarters, Summer Sessions | 10/17/1959 | See Source »

Before the vacuum which remains can be filled with an organized ethical system, there intervenes a period in which conduct of any sort passes unchecked and uncensured. To add to this, the student is encouraged to question critically all of his ideas and assumptions, initially an extremely destructive process. He sees himself as not yet fully adult, and hence not responsible for his actions in any sense that could be termed permanent, much less eternal...

Author: By Paul A. Buttenwieser, | Title: 'Moral Philosophy' in a Secular University | 10/15/1959 | See Source »

...have been drawn from healthy volunteer donors and transfused into the veins of surgery patients and victims of a wide variety of diseases and injuries. The substance that keeps the stored blood from clotting and makes it usable in transfusions is sodium citrate. The man who perfected the citration process back in 1915 is still active, though probably not one in a hundred of the millions who owe their lives to his transfusion method could name him. Unaccountably, he has never received a Nobel Prize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Unsung Hero | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

...this affidavit is odious, an unwarranted restriction upon academic freedom of discussion within the educational process, a dangerous precedent for action on the part of the Federal Government, and unnecessary for the protection of the security of our country... Resolution of The Faculty Senate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Statements From Other Schools on Loyalty Oath | 10/6/1959 | See Source »

...Iowa-born Captain Robert A. Phillips, 53, Namru-2 is a mobile, down-to-earth outfit which operates on the premise that more fighting men have been felled by disease than by broadsword or bomb. Its primary mission is to secure medical knowledge of potential military significance. In the process, it helps protect and improve the health of peoples wherever U.S. troops are stationed in the Far East. Roaming free Asia in everything from jeeps to light planes, Namru's field teams (average strength: twelve men) have collected mosquitoes from traps in dunghills, snails from paddyfields, snakes from underbrush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Medics for the Millions | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

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