Word: gen
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...equate the General Education requirement for Advanced Standing students and other students," Wilcox declared. "Advanced Standing should not be a way to get out of something, but a way to get into something." Wilcox added that there is a "loophole in the motivational rationale" when partial exemption from the Gen Ed requirement is one of the attractions of Sophomore Standing...
...spokesman for Lt. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, Director of the Selective Service System, said that the Corps would "put no strain" on the manpower pool. He said that Hershey had looked into the plan and observed that even 10,000 men would hardly cut into the number drafted each year...
...longer argues that only the other side would get hurt. This more considered position seems to be the cold calculation of the Soviet military itself, to judge by an article published in Moscow's monthly International Life by Major General Nikolai Talensky of the Soviet General Staff. Writes Gen eral Talensky...
...asked for a laboratory check of dead starlings on the runway, after Gen. Elwood Quesada, Federal Aviation Administrator, theorized that the plane hit a flock of birds on the runway...
...will stumble and fall into unemployment." Greatly increased yields can be obtained by such simple devices as an improved plow, which could be drawn by a bullock, or by increased use of fertilizer. "Just as most people are starved for food, most crops are starved of essential elements-nitro gen, phosphorus and potassium." Though production of nitrogen fertilizer has now reached 10 million tons a year, it "still ranks as one of the most underexploited discoveries of all time." Concluded Britain's Physicist P.M.S. Blackett: "We as scientists and technologists, have already given ourselves the tools by means...