Word: drawn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...questionnaire has also drawn on a series of questions that Dr. C. Robert Pace, of Syracuse University, has been developing and testing on groups of graduates for the last ten years. The question at the beginning of this Letter is one of Dr. Pace's, who is a recognized authority on measuring how well or badly different kinds of education fit people for their roles in life after college days are over. Other questions of this kind from TIME'S survey will be found on page 71 of this issue. You might like to test yourself with these...
...carefree intentness, an untroubled devotion to labor or play or art, and when such scenes and thoughts had no great place in life. The years before World War I seem to Sacheverell Sitwell to have been such a period-children playing at the seashore, a "goat-carriage" drawn up beside the bandstand, waking in the morning with the music of a new waltz ringing in one's ears...
...research team will also include anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, economists, and historians drawn from the faculty of this and other colleges throughout the nation...
...that you earned a college degree by work and study and thought, occasioned by personal interest. It is a fraud, I think, to parade a degree under conditions other than those--just as wrong as it is to present an engineering project under your name if it was drawn up by Mr. Cramer. And it is socially wrong in that Mr. Cramer's hobby emphasizes the fact than the acquisition, of a degree (i.e. and education) is auditioned primarily on the resources of the check-book, rather than of the brain. G. H. Matteradorff...
Lana Turner, just back from a much-publicized vacation with Café Sportsman Bob Topping, was suspended by MGM. Her sin: she had refused to play Dumas' seductive villainess, Milady de Winter, in The Three Musketeers. Nevertheless, grumbled the studio, she had drawn a $25,000 advance on her salary for the vacation. Gossipist Louella Parsons predicted that husky-voiced Lana would be back in harness in 24 hours; but 72 hours later she was still on vacation...