Word: strengthening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 23--Seventeen ways to strengthen the nation's defenses against Russia were marked out today by a Senate committee which declared: "We are engaged in a race for survival...
...This latter," he says, "would include more adequate financial support, yes; but also fresh efforts to strengthen the position of study in our society, and especially to dignify and reward more properly the profession of the teacher...
...Council may also be expected to attempt the abolition of class representative posts, and to try for a referendum, possibly in the fall, to "strengthen the Council," Leland said. Leland used as his platform the report of the Council Evaluation Committee, which he chairmans, which is reported to call for an end to class-elected Council posts...
...also suggested matching grants to help local schools recruit more mathematics science teachers, raise salaries and buy equipment, and finally to help the states strengthen the science and mathematics programs in their departments of education. Among the reasons for this request: "Studies indicate that only one out of three high school graduates has had a year of chemistry, only one out of four has taken a year of physics. There is a current shortage of more than 8,000 high school science teachers and yet-of the 5,000 graduates prepared to teach science last year-2,000 went into...
...Johnson uncharacteristically exposed himself to political attack, the President took special pains to strengthen a seriously weakened position without over-extending himself, as Johnson may have done. The President did not, however, neutralize himself, as he frequently has in the past. While not taking a partisan approach, he assumed some of the blame for under-estimating the psychological significance of the Sputnik, and he at least recognized the existence of the dispute over inter-service rivalry. Because he did not make a mea culpa statement of reform and renewed good intentions, he left a large measure of the blame unplaced...