Word: broads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...record makers mix propaganda for democracy and education (a selling point to parents) with their music. Decca's Churkendoose ("it was neither a turkey, a chicken, a duck nor a goose") with Comedian-Dancer Ray Bolger is a broad plea for racial tolerance. Capitol Records bound books inside its Bozo the Clown albums so that children could follow the narrative of Bozo's travels, get a rudimentary idea of geography. Bozo's sales: 1,000,000. Most of the companies are dead serious about their job as molders of the young mind. When a Columbia Records survey...
...social scientists are not entirely to blame for the gap between these two broad areas of knowledge, for their brethren have had the early advantage of precise mensuration not to mention far more liberal public endowment. While the lab technician can talk in milligrams and light years, the economist still grapples with unmeasurable concepts like "marginal utility...
...work, the committee should not let the preparedness of the physicists outweigh the need of the psychologist. The latter must be given a little grace to reorient his thinking. As Professor Leontief, also a member, of the committee, points out, his fellow economists have intentionally pursued their investigations in broad, vague terms, because of the tediousness and expense of dealing mathematically with the voluminous statistics confronting them. The genius of the calculator is that it can deal with many variables operating simultaneously. In the fluid and changing battleground of economics, sociology, and social relations, one or two unknowns added...
...Carey's project prospered from the start. Baltimore parents were delighted with the Country School's broad lawns, surrounded by deep woods. They even accepted the fresh air fad of 1901, when classrooms were built without any glass in the windows. Boys attended class in woolens and mufflers, keeping their feet on bricks which had been heated in a furnace. The boys fared well (the fresh air, it was claimed, enabled them to do two years' work in one). But constant colds among the faculty finally ended the experiment...
...method, new to Harvard, has been tested in the educational laboratory and found fruitful," the committee reported. "The principle of studying relatively thoroughly a few representative topics from a given broad field of knowledge was approved decisively by students more accustomed to the usual survey-type courses...