Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...imagination that are found in his difficult surgical specialty. A massive new study now tells how Sir Harold and his colleagues treat human flesh as if it were sculptor's clay and reports on the latest heroic operations which restore mutilated bodies to human shape. For a full account, see MEDICINE, Flap Happy...
...Under the high-school section "Using Tools of Communication Effectively," Hildebrand counted 44 items on "listening," e.g., "listening to a telephone conversation," "listening to the words of a song." He also noted under "Using Mathematics" such items as "counting change as cashiers do" and "opening a checking account and making out deposit slips." Bottom ways of "using mathematics": "making geometric constructions" and "forming and using equations to solve problems...
...face of a dead certainty. The operation only confirmed the death sentence and, unwilling to live as "less than a whole man," Wertenbaker collected a large supply of narcotics and returned to die with his family in Ciboure on France's lovely Basque coast. Following this account, few readers will fail to be moved by the pathos of a middle-aged couple who can suddenly no longer say, "When...
...survey was based on the 1952-53 school year. Estimates for 1957 took into account the cost-of-living index of the Bureau of Labor Statistics and also the rise in tuition, fees and other college costs. Average tuition and fees at public college in 1952-53 totaled about $175 and at private institutions about...
...Rupert Campbell Thompson Jr., 51, chairman of the executive committee of Textron, Inc., was elected president, will continue as chief administrative officer in charge of Textron's non-textile operations, which have grown to 13 divisions, now account for 75% of all sales since Textron began its rapid diversification program. Thompson will be right-hand man to Royal Little, 61, peppery chairman of the board, who has run a growing empire almost singlehanded since Textron Inc. merged with American Woolen Co. and Robbins Mills, Inc. in 1955. Last March Little hired onetime Textron Director Thompson, a personal friend...