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DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN SLANG (669 pp.)-Compiled by Harold Wentworth and Stuart Berg Flexner - Crowell...
...slang. H. L. Mencken made his prodigious contribution (The American Language), and Lester Berrey and Melvin Van den Bark produced their useful but not fundamental compendium (The American Thesaurus of Slang). Standing up well against the competition, Dr. Harold Wentworth, editor of the American Dialect Dictionary, and Stuart Berg Flexner, Cornell and University of Louisville philologist, have produced a handy, invaluable reference work that may well emerge as the standard in the field. In short, the authors have done a remarkably fly and dicty...
...needs of the times add up to an ominous challenge. "The crisis we are approaching," says Dr. Darley, "is the most serious that medical education has faced since the Flexner Report...
Died. Dr. Abraham Flexner, 92, educator who began a lifelong fight for better education by issuing a sensational report (1910) on the condition of U.S. medical schools that caused half of the schools to shut down, the other half to overhaul their curriculums, as a member of the General Education Board of the Rockefeller Foundation cajoled multimillions out of wealthy moguls to reorganize American medical education, founded (1930) Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study and persuaded Dr. Einstein to leave Germany to become one of its first members; in Falls Church...
...Southern schools. The Rockefeller Foundation, partly following the Peabody lead, plunged into medical research, virtually eliminated hookworm from the South, wrestled with diseases all over the world. Andrew Carnegie's money sprinkled public libraries across the nation, set up pensions for college teachers and, by supporting the famed Flexner report on U.S. and Canadian medical schools, revolutionized medical education in America. Meanwhile, the smaller ($1,000,000 a year) but prestigious John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has made it possible for thousands of artists and scholars to strike out on their...