Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Oliver Cromwell Carmichael decided to get out of Alabama and to accept a two-year-old offer from the Fund for the Advancement of Education to do a survey of higher-education programs. "I feel," said he of his new job, "that it is the greatest opportunity that has come...
...bitterly chided Boston for opposing woman suffrage longer than Chicago, women doctors longer than New Orleans. But it was from Harvard's medical faculty that she got her greatest honor: as early as 1919 Harvard named her assistant professor in industrial medicine. Crusader Hamilton saw U.S. industry increasingly accept the fact that its workers' health was inseparable from an evergrowing productivity, saw her field broadened beyond the now obvious hazards of poison to include psychological hazards as well...
...Soviets. East Germans say their steel production is up to 2,000,-ooo tons, brown coal up to 200 million tons, electricity up to 29 billion kw-h for 1,955, all double the 1936 output and way ahead of the wartime peak in 1943. Western authorities tend to accept these statistics, admit that the industrious Germans have made remarkable progress since 1950 by putting everyone to work and using women in backbreaking men's jobs...
...Away From It is a slightly better-than-average movie is a striking tribute to the lasting human interest of the basic situation: boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl. It is a situation that most moviegoers have long been conditioned to accept, but in the case of this picture, those who remember the original will be wise to resist the conclusion ex pressed in the new title...
...universities start the revolt," he asked, "when students have been told for the last ten years that Communism is good and that in it lies the future?" His answer was, "We were thinking beings: we could not accept Communist domination over our country...