Word: dose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...type, Economics A casts a more than healthy load of graphs, charts, and general figuring onto the tender shoulders of the average non-economist who finds himself enrolled. With the General Education program sweetening the pill of Natural Sciences, this course still on the shelf as a dose all history and government concentrators must get down...
...masquerade as something else (sample label: "An aid to delayed menstruation caused by cold or exposure to inclement weather"). They generally contain ergot, quinine, apiol oil or various exotic substances, none of which, doctors say, can possibly produce abortion. But in the large quantities with which desperate patients often dose themselves, they may be fatal...
...truly American" culture--it was the product of liberal education, too much education but still not enough. War broke most of the bones of those ideals, and now they are socially quite unpresentable. But an untouched and confident corps of students are stepping up to receive their dose of the liberal arts and they will emerge with a bright new idealism: it will be very similar to the old. Meanwhile, many leaders of the former picketings and rallies and bull sessions clung to their raft of obsessions and quietly disappeared when war and contact with the raw, coarse stuff...
...Dese, Dose & Firetraps. Dr. Jansen, as head, of the nation's biggest public school system (800 schools, 34,000 teachers, 890,000 pupils) will have one of education's most thankless jobs. There are fine things about the New York system (including excellent technical high schools, special classes for handicapped youngsters). But most parents who can afford it send their kids to private schools, and many others wish they could find the money...
...date textbooks. A $38,000,000 building program is still largely in the blueprint stage, and schoolhouses are dangerously decrepit (said Mayor William O'Dwyer: "Those old Civil War firetraps are ghastly"). Above all, parents don't want their boys & girls to pick up the "dese-&-dose" accent of many students, or the morals and manners of "Dead End Kids" who are often the leaders in some of the city's schools...