Word: cramming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shivering stands, fans warmed up by arguing that Coach Earl Blaik should never have ruined Holleder, an All-America end, by trying to teach him how to run a T-formation offense. In the second quarter. Blaik called Holleder to the bench to give him a last-minute cram course in football strategy...
...Turks," explained one important U.S. official recently. ". . . have tried to cram 50 years' progress into five; they just don't have the economic base to do it." In the midst of great accomplishment, troubles have bred like termites. In the pellmell rush of putting up factories, dredging ports, bulldozing roads, planting new crops, nobody found time or talent to coordinate and manage all the projects. Factories were located in one part of the country, the electric power to operate them in another. Sugar mills seemed to get built near voters, not beet fields. As soon as new cement...
...standard test; last year about 10% of those tested were flunked. But then Park Forest got a new superintendent for its School District 163. A conscientious educator, Superintendent Gerald Smith concluded that the tests had become too easy; so routine, in fact, that parents knew exactly how to cram their children for them. Convinced that kindergarten is harmful for children who are not ready ("Their attention span is much too short. They cry and wet their pants"), Smith and his seven-member school board decided to get tough...
Crissman jokingly suggested he might have placed better with a map in his hands. At any rate, before the April marathon he expects to sneak a topographical cram-session into his twice-weekly workouts...
Then in 1939, the CRIMSON launched a campaign seeking abolition of the cram pariors and banned their advertising from its columns. Within a month, the University threatened to expel any student who sold his lecture notes. Professors laid traps in their exams for students who used canned answers provided by tute schools. Finally, in 1940, all outside tutoring was banned...