Word: among
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it." Last week in Bridlington the Trades Union Congress, representing 8,000,000 organized workers, had full possession of its heart's desire-a Socialist government. Yet under the seeming agreement among the delegates in the Spa Royal Hall was frustration, and perhaps tragedy...
Professor Henry Grattan Doyle of George Washington University thought it was time to call a halt. The latest gimmick among U.S. educators was something called "life-adjustment education" -a school of thought which seemed to believe that the teacher's job was not so much to teach history or algebra, as to prepare students to live happily ever after. "It will pass," said Professor Doyle to the Modern Language Association last week; but meanwhile, "it is continuing the same course of wild claims, blanket condemnation of 'traditional' subjects, anti-intellectualism, and contempt for 'book learning...
...recent article in This Week magazine. The article was "full of the usual cliches such as 'learning as much about children as Chaucer' . . . and suspicious statistics." A "family-living" course in a Michigan high school, for instance, was credited with having cut the divorce rate among graduates, yet the life-adjustment "revolution" was only four years old. "How early do [they] marry?" Doyle wanted to know...
...popular, "common sense" notion that well-fed people are most likely to keep healthy is not necessarily true. Recent research shows that the common diseases of childhood are no more prevalent among poorly fed children than among children stuffed with spinach, fruit and fish-oil vitamins. Research also shows that well-fed adults suffer as much as anyone else from the common cold and influenza...
...Among the viruses (which cause such familiar diseases as measles, chickenpox, colds, influenza and mumps) are many which prove more damaging to a healthy body. Sick chickens are more resistant to cancer than healthy ones. Undernourished guinea pigs are better able to ward off foot-and-mouth disease...