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Word: bothers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lecture system as we know it has been abolished. In its place are five hours of language tutorial and five hours of mathematics tutorial each week. Every student also attends at least three hours of laboratory per week. The St. John's men don't even bother to answer the criticism of those who say that the curriculum is not scientific. They simply point out that no other liberal arts college in the country requires four years of laboratory work, and illustrate with the fact that the Johns Hopkins Medical School, one of the country's best, will admit...

Author: By Blair Clark, | Title: Head of Liberal Education Committee Reviews St. John's College; Describes Working of New Program | 4/10/1940 | See Source »

...waiters indignantly denied every impeachment but the last. If they were guilty of "keeping dirty tables" it was only on the order of Mr. Billingsley, who, they said, instructed them not to "bother about changing the linen on the table . . . when you are serving parties that do not pay, because they cannot kick if they do not pay." Real reason for their being fired, they said, was for trying to join a union. (Several of them, said Mr. Billingsley, did not try to join a union till the day they were fired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Stork Stuck? | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

...Practical GOPoliticians, running for their lives to the hills, threw him a scornful glance over their shoulders. In the lean days that followed, these harried GOPartisans came out of their fastnesses only to make hungry forays on the fat New Deal outposts. They had little time or inclination to bother with Prophet Hoover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: On Revival Day | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

...bother with that now," protested Forney. "I'll get help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Get a Policeman | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

Most psychiatrists' reports are woven around the tortured braggings of a paranoiac, the sullen stupors of a schizophrenic. Few ever bother with such broader problems as the relation of insanity to unemployment, to age, to sex, to alcohol. And no one has seriously answered the crucial questions: Is insanity in the U. S. increasing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hope for Sanity | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

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