Word: considerations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gratitude from a Waitress. Last May, invited to conduct the London Philharmonic for one concert, he replied that one concert would not be worth his while. Britain was poor, but not too poor to help. Last week's concert was the first of six in a Strauss festival: two...
Algebra at Five. Today, in a faded yellow-brick-and-plaster house in Adyar, Maria Montessori is hard at work. She lectures in Italian two or three times a week; Mario translates into English for her. She is surer than ever of one thing: "The child is capable of achieving...
Henry Morton ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume?") Stanley was one of the small boys' heroes of the 19th Century. His reputation is having harder going in the 20th. It is now well established that Missionary Livingstone did not consider himself lost, and had little desire to be "found." But though...
Named the Committee on Applied Mathematics and the Calculating Laboratory, the group will for the first time consider application of the mechanical calculator to research in medicine, economics, social relations, and engineering, as well as in the pure physical sciences.
¶ Gallup pollsters reported that U.S. parents consider boys easier to raise than girls. Reasons: boys require less attention and clothes, have fewer social problems, are apt to be less temperamental.