Word: narrower
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Bruner report of last spring, despite its inability to define the aims in a manner narrow enough to be within the reach of a one-year course, brought a fresh outlook to the program, and, apparently as a result of either the report or pleas by members of the Committee, several prominent natural scientists have become interested in Nat Sci--Edward M. Purcell, professor of Physics, is teaching half of Nat Sci 2, and George Wald, professor of Bio-chemistry, will teach a lower level course next year. Nevertheless, it is clear that prominent scientists can give time...
...transfer student from Smith made a perceptive comparison between the two schools: "Smith is academically stimulating," she said, "but Sarah Lawrence is intellectually more exciting." Whatever validity this comment has is a result of the college's attempt to interest its students in broad ideas rather than in narrow course material...
...Crimson's lightweight line, whose precision attack was supposed to flounder on wet, muddy grounds, was never better, as it rose to the occasion against a rugged Quaker eleven. Moreover, the varsity adapted easily to the narrow Penn field...
...newest effort to cope with traffic jams that make an eternity of crossing the Eternal City. Plagued by an ever-growing (up 400,000 since World War II), ever-moving population, Rome's traffic planners route fleets of Fiats and thundering herds of motor scooters through narrow alleys designed for carriages and litters. Whole areas of Rome have become all but impossible to reach by car; so congested is the area around the Pantheon that many cab drivers flatly refuse to take passengers there...
...particles is greater than their tendency to fly apart. Then the great cloud collapses, forming a galaxy or a cluster of galaxies, each of which contains billions of stars. The galaxies, being immersed in the hot gas, continue to move away from one another. But within their narrow confines, gravitation reigns as supreme as it does on the little planets revolving around their stars...