Word: chiefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chief reason for the radical shift in Radcliffe figures, according to the survey, seems to stem from the trend in Radcliffe marriages. Only 59 percent of the 'Cliffe Class of 1923 is married, while 72 percent of the Class of 1938 has already achieved marital bliss...
...chief defect of the examination system is its tendency to make a student's efforts rise to dominant peaks just before examinations. It might be said that an examination makes the student think about a course as a whole, but stimulates him to such thinking only once or twice a year...
Died. James Edward West, 71, longtime Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America (1911-43); of an intestinal disease; in New Rochelle, N.Y. An orphan lamed by tuberculosis, he was a veteran in social work and child-welfare reform when he took over the Scouts. Its membership was then 61,495 ; he helped build it to some...
Veblen believed that modern machinery was the latest expression of this natural instinct; he concluded that refusal to use the maximum machinery was not only economically silly but downright unnatural. The machine's chief enemy, he argued, was a moss-backed array of old-fashioned institutions and traditions - and he set out to blow them apart. In his first and most fascinating book, The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), he coldly scrutinized the various ways in which the successful businessman struggled to evade his debt to the very machine which had made him rich...
...best to convince people that he has never handled a deal in his life. He buys an impractical top hat, to symbolize his state of "conspicuous leisure." He goes off on a jag of "conspicuous consumption"-i.e., he pours his machine-made money into old china and silverware whose chief virtue is that they are handmade and therefore obviously very expensive. To show that he can afford to be "conspicuously wasteful," he turns a stretch of productive pasture into a non-productive park, boots out the "useful" cow that grazes there and replaces it with a herd of useless deer...