Word: cooperative
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...said Professor Garrett Mattingly of Manhattan's Cooper Union, "recognize the tendency of the emotionally naive ... to distort history into patriotic legend. But these obvious perversions are not really dominant. . . . What does need correction is another form of cultural isolationism which is spreading in this country. I mean our increasing preoccupation with our national past, so that history, in the U.S., is coming to mean almost exclusively the history of the U.S." New York City, he said, now teaches twice as much U.S. history as 25 years...
...liberal religion of humanitarians has given to the world the great works of such men & women as Horace Mann, Susan B. Anthony, Julia Ward Howe, Thomas Jefferson, Peter Cooper...
George M. Shuster, President of Hunter College, has volunteered to assist the committee in relations with UNESCO. Alfred Kazin, well-known author, Professor Meyer Shapiro of Columbia University, Professor G. A. Borgese of the University of Chicago, and Garret Mattingly, director of the department of Social Philosophy at Cooper Union, are also participating in the work...
...Company Lawyer Frank E. Cooper did agree. Said he: any reasonable walking time should be called a "trifle." The management did not bother to deduct for time the men wasted on the job, even though the time amounted to half an hour a day. Asked the Judge : "Were these facts drawn to the attention of the Supreme Court?" Answered Cooper: "They were in our brief but they weren't mentioned in the opinion...
Excess Profit. In Portland, Ore., City Commissioner Kenneth Cooper bemoaned the nickel bonus added to his $5,000 salary, complained that it boosted him into a higher income-tax bracket...