Word: burrs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sturdy little Owen S. Gibson, 69, onetime Chautauqua performer, onetime plumber and builder, used to think that Townsendism was the biggest thing in his life. But now Owen Gibson works at Douglas Aircraft's big Long Beach plant, on a "burr bench," where he files the rough edges off machined airplane parts. Says he: "I haven't been so active in the club since working here. This is all-important-the other isn't so important...
...Captain Johnny Paine would be moved up to the Crimson front line, the puck-chasing Senior has been retained at his defensive post, and he is one of the only almost-certain starters on the club. Sharing defensive duties should be Sophomore Dick Mechom, with Olie Taylor and Carleton Burr prossing...
Educators were very wrong when they thought that the machine age would simplify life for morons and imbeciles by making it easier to train them to make a living at routine machine jobs. A specialist in training subnormal youngsters, Director Emily T. Burr of New York City's Vocational Adjustment Bureau has concluded after long experience that machines are actually squeezing morons out of jobs...
...Burr, who reported her findings at The Woods Schools (for "exceptional" children), Langhorne, Pa., learned that it takes a moron (mental age eight to twelve) or an imbecile (mental age three to seven) at least two years to learn a machine operation that an average worker can learn in a few weeks. What alarms Dr. Burr is that one by one the jobs at which subnormal people are most successful-such as wrapping packages, egg candling, simple clerical work-have been taken over by machines...
...moron is not completely dark. The war has temporarily created jobs for morons: they are filling in as errand boys and girls, waiters, elevator operators, nurses' aides. And when it comes to a choice between a well-adjusted moron and an unstable individual of normal intelligence, Dr. Burr would pick the moron every time. She underlines her point by citing the case of Jenny, 20, a girl of high-grade intelligence who announced one day that she had lost her job as nurse's aide in a maternity hospital. She was asked why. Said Jenny: "Oh, you know...