Word: america
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chief man in the School organization today is influential Dean Donald K. David, who is simultaneously a director of such enterprises as General Electric, R. H. Macy's, and the Boys' Club of America. Dean David succeeded Donham, who in 1942 resigned his deanship at the advice of his physician. Donham is now a professor of Human Relations at Colgate University...
Rows of seats are preferred over a conference table becauses they accommodate large classes. But the practice of moulding educational techniques to the capacity of available class rooms is hardly worthy of America's wealthiest University. Professors who find undergraduates incapable of benefitting from the conference method fail to understand that discussion cannot begin spontaneously after 45 minutes of one-way communication. Participation must be fostered, and it needs mechanical encouragement in room design...
Claiming that this was "the only trapeziform dining hall in America," Mason said the Society would launch a public enlightenment campaign to acquaint people with the new tradition...
...looks more like a bank president than an auctioneer, has pleased most of the sellers who have come to him.* In eleven years he has built Parke-Bernet (rhymes with "in debt") into the largest U.S. auction house, lured buyers from as far away as Europe and South America, and sold more than $50 million worth of paintings, books, furniture, tapestries, etc. At commissions ranging from 10% (plus expenses) up to 20%, he has always shown a tidy profit (last year's take: about...
...Rochemont was determined to carry the suit up to the U.S. Supreme Court. He had pledges of cooperation from the Motion Picture Association of America and the American Civil Liberties Union. It was true that in 1915 the U.S. Supreme Court had found the fledgling movies a vehicle of entertainment rather than, opinion, and had upheld state censorship laws as no violation of freedom. But only last year, in another opinion, the Supreme Court observed that the movies were clearly entitled to the Constitution's protection of free press...