Word: emphasising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three in every four of the 11,700 new students are veterans, thousands of whom would never have come to Cambridge but for the G.I. Bill of Rights and Harvard's liberal policy of measuring veterans' achievements, rather than their formal preparation, as a basis for admission. But...
Busy boning up on Japan, Mrs. Vining is also collecting children's classics to take with her. Says she: "I will teach the Crown Prince the stories every American schoolchild knows, stories of Washington and of Longfellow and of American thoughts and ideals. The emphasis will be on a...
Then he talked a group of St. Louis businessmen into financing his expansion, to a new Parks Airport across the river from St. Louis at Cahokia, Ill. He signed up 400 students after some whirlwind publicity. By the early thirties, he smartly anticipated a glut of pilots, shifted the emphasis...
The Analysts. In the hierarchy of psychiatric treatment, ranging from a single $5 (or free) clinic visit to a $25,000 lifetime course, the luxury trade is psychoanalysis.* Concentrated mainly in neurotic Manhattan, psychoanalysis is split into at least a dozen schools, from orthodox Freudians to socially conscious Horneyans (leader...
Fundamentally, according to this book, the trouble with contemporary economic policy is its emphasis on short-run special problems and its refusal to consider long-run effects on the nation as a whole. In support of his thesis, the author cites labor's featherbedding, the gouge of "parity prices" for...