Word: bartons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...significant, and extraordinary, that the appeal for a re-evaluation was not made to Conant but to a committee of eight respected professors including Ralph Barton Perry, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Samuel E. Morison, and Felix Frankfurter. These men wrote to Conant, suggesting what they wanted to study and making it pointedly clear that if they were not authorized to investigate, they would do so anyway...
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...companies shared profits with their employees. Last week some 8,000 profit-sharing plans were on file with the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Each month 200 more are pouring in for approval. Among the recent converts: Chicago's Bell & Howell camera company; Manhattan's ad agency, Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborne; the National City Bank. A fortnight ago, Eastman Kodak, one of the early profit-sharers, declared a "wage dividend" of $28.5 million for its 53,000 employees, an average bonus for each employee of more than $500 for the year...
Mayan Lower Classes. Professor (of archaeology) Gordon R. Willey of Harvard has been carefully excavating a small ancient village at Barton Ramie, Honduras, which is 15 miles from the elaborate ceremonial center of Benque Viejo. The great temples and pyramids of the Mayans are already well known, but little is known about the people who labored to build them...
...people who lived in Barton Ramie's 350 thatch-roofed, plaster-floored houses apparently owned little besides their cotton loincloths. They tossed their refuse outside the houses, where it built up into thick kitchen middens; then they buried their dead in it. Dr. Willey found no evidence in Barton Ramie of the high intellectual or artistic life of the ancient Mayans. He thinks that the theocratic society of the Mayans was much like that of medieval Europe, where peasants lived in miserable villages around great cathedrals, and most of their substance was sucked up into the spires of lacy...