Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Today Bachelor Kartveli, like other top-drawer ideamen in aviation, is busy about next year's design. But sometimes he goes out on the field to watch his 2,000-h.p. (Pratt & Whitney) Thunderbolt in the air. He's proud of the beast. "A nice plane," he admits, in an accent tinged with French, rather than Russian. "But she's too big." Airmen who fly the beast could argue with him, but they don't. They know it's an esthete's criticism...
Hard-working Mr. Crowley has few diversions. Once he owned a race horse. Occasionally he visits a race track. But the sporting world is not his background. The proper background for Leo Thomas Crowley is marble & mahogany. A bachelor, he lives in Washington's glittering Mayflower Hotel. In his FDIC office hangs a "No Smoking" sign. He cannot stand the smell, which annoys his sinuses...
Economics, of all the non-scientific fields, has organized most fully to adapt its students to the emergency. Upon receiving their bachelor degree, students will be ready to take Civil Service examinations for such positions as junior economist, which pays $2,000 annually, or to complete further graduate work and then enter the supply division of the armed services. There is a large demand for college trained men in both these fields...
...went back to St. Paul's as a teacher: a bachelor whose arms always seemed to be coming out of his sleeves, who groped painfully for the right word, hooked his hands in his pants-top like a Midwestern farmer, always looked funny in a hat, lived in a single room so littered with books that there was no place to sit. When he talked to his classes, in a soft, throaty whisper, he was hard to hear, sometimes hard to understand...
Robert M. Hutchins, President of the University of Chicago, used last Sunday's New York Times to lash out at what he calls "the confusion, waste and uncertainty of American education." He advocated a plan to award the bachelor's degree at the end of Sophomore year at college, thereby ending the average student's general education at the age of 20 and allowing "the students who want to go farther, and are able to do so," to start working for their master's degree in their Junior year...