Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Hollywood invaded the local scene briefly for the second time within a year last week as Paramount Studio cameramen, mounted in the back of a pick-up truck, cruised up and down Memorial Drive near the Houses, shooting background material for Bing Crosby's new picture, "Here Comes the Groom...
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...General's lack of academic background has drawn much attention; his only earned degree is from West Point. His critics say that, as a result of this lack, he cannot play an important role in forming education policy or selecting new men for the faculty...
...veteran professors at the University summarized the "Eisenhower problem" as follows: "The trustees should have known better than to pick Eisenhower. They knew that he had no educational background, but they thought they were getting a good fund-raiser. Today the trustees are getting what they deserve for their lack of insight...
...concentrator, the man who could take no music courses because he could not met the requirements. "My great interest," he explains, "is in the man who has to start from scratch." At the time, 1935, the type of course he 'planned--with emphasis on music with historical background--was not common in colleges, although preparatory schools had some like...