Word: leveled
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Khrushchev wants to challenge us, let him talk to his Parliament about raising the level of freedom in Russia. Let him compete on our terms. His government would go to hell...
...stiff-collared man of headmasterly mien, Carl Hansen was born in Wolbach, Neb. (pop. 442), graduated from the University of Nebraska, got his doctorate at the University of Southern California. As an English teacher (and later principal) at Omaha's Technical High School, he developed a three-level English curriculum, forerunner of his four-track system. Long before going to Washington in 1947, he had hammered out a tough-minded notion of priorities: "Out of the unbelievable range and variety of human activities and experiences, only a limited number of basic ones can be selected for teaching...
Besides renovating the "antiquated" Biological Laboratories, built in 1931, the department plans to re-equip them. "The purpose is to tool-up for the rest of this century" with the modern equipment needed for investigating life at the molecular and sub-molecular level, Williams commented...
...Carl J. Gilbert, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, lauded Jordan for his "life-long commitment to scholarship at the highest level." In announcing the fund, Mrs. Gilbert expressed the hope that the gift would "keep you both permanently with us and will help the college in the way which you understand is most vital today...
Where Author Boyle does succeed is in her unerring demonstration of how difficult it is for conqueror and conquered to meet at any level below the let's-get-along surface. And she can suggest, rather than tiresomely explain, that history and national character are still tragically more decisive than any common love for the good, the true and the beautiful...