Word: expectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cannot expect to cure such lopsided standards just by giving teachers the pay they deserve, building the schools we need, and ordering up more science courses. [But] a few important steps can be taken by state and local authorities. Most of our state teachers' colleges should be abolished as such and converted into liberal-arts colleges, with subordinate education departments. There must also be some drastic upgrading of curriculum requirements...
...borne much of the brunt of the recession. President Avery C. Adams, of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., No. 4 in the industry, announced that J. & L.'s orders climbed slightly during the first twelve days of March, though nothing to get excited about yet. Nevertheless, Adams expected to make good his boast of turning a profit at 50% of capacity. Said he: "We were in the black in January and February, and we expect to be in the black this month...
...places, from Texas. The speaker: Houston's Will L. Clayton, one of Texas' elder statesmen, a founder of the giant Anderson. Clayton & Co., cotton firm, a onetime Under Secretary of State and Assistant Secretary of Commerce. Clayton's message to his fellow Texans who expect the Government to cut imports more: stop trying to promote the "special interest of certain oil producers against the national interest...
...Reason: Doyle Dane Bernbach believes that copy is more important than market research, graphs, formal presentations and much of the other paraphernalia that dominate many agencies. Says Agency President William Bernbach, 46: "We get people to look and listen by being good artists and writers. We don't expect of research what it is unable to do. It won't give you a great idea...
...reader learns that Graves has "bitter black Protestant blood," inherited from a grandfather, the last Protestant Bishop of Limerick; that at his home in Majorca he writes 500 words a day with a steel nib; that he dislikes Guggenheim fellowships ("When I was young . . . one didn't expect to be publicly supported just because one happened to write unsaleable verse"); and that he likes to test a poet's verboseness by summarizing stanzas in cablese, e.g., Wordsworth's "The Solitary Reaper": SOLITARY HIGHLAND LASS REAPING BINDING GRAIN STOP MELANCHOLY SONG OVERFLOWS PROFOUND VALE...