Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...library of essential information). All are college graduates and graduate librarians. Their operation has been an important part of TIME'S editorial process since about 1937. By then our morgue had become so large and complex that the editorial researchers needed help in selecting from it the background material, facts and information they used for swift and accurate checking...
Each month the research librarians answer about 5,000 requests for facts and background material. Some of them are one-of-a-kinds: How much does the U.S. budget weigh? What is a sneeze? Was Julius Caesar a good swimmer? Did Shakespeare wear a nightgown? How much money was bet at U.S. race tracks on Memorial...
...courses like Biology 1 and 122 (Comparative Verterbrate Anatomy) are ordinarily an important part of the preparation for medical school. More than that, the department offers an excellent introduction to the kind of experimentation that the medical schools employ constantly; the student, for instance, can get a very thorough background in the technique of studying micro-organisms and laboratory animals...
...English concentrators are required to tackle the unavoidable and discouraging English 1. Though the course contains a lot of good reading, the fact that you can devote only about ten minutes flat to each author squelches the pleasures in reading. Lectures fill in good background material, section meetings emphasize appreciation, and the instructors in the course do all they can to take the pain out of the gigantic assignments...
...time with literature. German 50 is the best introductory literature course for those unsure of their German. Students with confidence in their reading ability can go into German 75. The last course is less interesting than the first because of the material it covers, but it provides an excellent background in German Literature...