Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Committee's proposal to admit a few exceptional students after three years of secondary school. The senior year in school is often un-stimulating, a duplication of work to come later in college. The only argument against these early admissions is the largely unsuccessful experiment the Ford Foundation made at Yale, Columbia, and Chicago. But these "pre-induction" scholarships were given to students sixteen or under, with no more than two years of high school. Those coming to Harvard under the new plan would be a year older and should be carefully screened to prove their emotional maturity...
Meet Millie's Elena Verdugo once in a great while carries a piece of paper from her desk to a filing cabinet, but, with that chore over, she takes it easy by necking with the boss's son (Ross Ford). My Friend Irma's Marie Wilson is portrayed as a bosomy sub-cretin who spends her office hours listening ecstatically while the recorded voice of a telephone operator recites the time...
...Sparked by the Ford Foundation, Arkansas started a "bold new experiment" in teacher training two years ago, now has 15 colleges in the state participating. The idea is to persuade students to go into teaching by giving them four years of the liberal arts plus a fifth year of professional internship at either the State Teachers' College at Conway or the University of Arkansas. In 1953-54, the plan got 30 recruits. Total applicants for next fall...
AUTOMAKERS decided that their 1,700,000-car goal for 1954's first quarter was too optimistic, will probably miss it by at least 12%. Both Ford and Chevrolet have announced "slight" production cuts; Plymouth, already cut back 20%, will drop another 10% and lay off 8,650 more workers. Biggest reason: high dealer stocks of unsold 1953 models...
...size of the fund deficit, $11,700, eliminates the Possibility that individual contributions will suffice, Schuchter said. A grant or grants by an outside organization, such as the Ford and Rockefeller foundations, however, would be one solution to this problem, he added...