Word: elton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Perry believes that the ideas and ideals of America's founders are not obsolete in 1944. He believes with Stanford's Elton Trueblood (The Invention of America) that "the invention of America was more .important than the discovery of America." His purpose is to reconstruct the thought of the Puritans, to show its embodiment in American institutions, American government, American democracy. If writing can be "insipid with veracity," he says, "I am willing to be as insipid as necessary in order to be as veracious as possible. ... It is part of my purpose to rebuke cynics...
Following an investigation in nearly all the major aircraft plants of Southern California, the report features contributions by Professors Elton Mayo, George F. F. Lombard, John B. Fox, and Jerome F. Scott. While the men concede that the financial loss in labor turnover and absenteeism resulting from neglect of worker morale can be over-looked by firms enjoying wartime prosperity, they assert that the defect may prove fatal to many companies in the highly competitive period expected after hostilities cease...
...Elton Ellison, 20, of Rails, Tex. has made the furrows of a farm look like a highway to business success. The Future Farmers of America, meeting in their Kansas City convention this week, gave young Ellison the title of "Star Farmer of America" and $500 prize money. For Farmer Ellison, recently inducted into the Army, this prize money was just another cash token of an operating success that started when he was 13. By then he had saved up enough money to buy a pig. A little later he borrowed money to finance an eight-acre cotton patch; paid...
...world is sick and the disease is skepticism. But now, unlike the Victorian era, it is not so much man's skepticism of God as man's skepticism of man. So declares David Elton Trueblood, 43, chaplain and professor of the philosophy of religion at Stanford University, in The Predicament of Modern Man (Harper...
Mouse Harvests. Sometimes the mice cycles lead to cycles of disaster throughout nature. "Northward, beyond the line where crops will flourish," says Elton, "the mice themselves become a crop, harvested in turn by fox and trapper and trader." From the reports of the Hudson's Bay Company and of Labrador missionaries Elton has found that in the last century fox catches fluctuated in four-year cycles, one year after the cycles of voles in Labrador and lemmings in Ungava (subArctic Quebec...