Word: basically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Biology concentrator is wise to tuck away as many of the basic courses as possible in his first two years, since almost all of the advanced courses are bound by chains of prerequisites...
...will never learn that a funny idea and a few dangling gags cannot make a good stage comedy. Mr. Abbott, the producer of the new comedy by Will Glickman and Joseph Stein, should have been able to see that even the two-line jokes were infrequent and that the basic humorous situation in the play was written completely without the writers' consulting their hearts. The results is a painfully strained, unoriginal, play about some people who are either incredibly stupid or plain contemptible...
...airplane (if still intact) goes back to the manufacturer with a detailed report. If he can convince the Air Force that its defects have been corrected, the Air Force buys several improved copies and turns them over to test pilots for final "evaluation." Since the airplane's basic flight characteristics are well understood by then, evaluation work is usually done at Wright-Patterson Field, Dayton, close to the great laboratories of the Engineering Division. The airplane is flown at all possible altitudes, loads, power outputs and rates of climb. It is strained, stunted, landed under adverse conditions...
Previously in the meeting, the ADA adopted a policy of complete academic freedom for teachers. This question was also supported by the HLU. "Should communists be allowed to teach?" was the basic problem, and when the policy was finally set it averred that teachers should be judged solely on academic ability, that they should be completely free in other connections, and that they should bear no guilt through their associations...
...area, however, the Committee possibly has called for a bit of needless fretting. "We feel," the report says, "that unless Administration is freed from its preoccupation with an incomplete program and comes to reconsider the more basic questions of personnel and of the incentives to actual learning, General Education may never become more than expensive half success...