Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...least one high-ranking Roman Catholic priest seemed to agree. At a World Council reception in Geneva, he commented: "Let us all pray that God will give the Holy Father the strength to break through the opposition of the Curia. One must not forget that these cardinals in their ivory Vatican tower have never seen Protestants, and feel no need for contacts with something that to them does not exist. The Pope is a man of great experience. Let us hope he can make the weight of his enlightened judgment felt...
Bell executives recently ran a test in Baltimore, discovered that telephone salesgirls sold 112% more department store goods than floor salesgirls, at a cost 51% less. They do not intend to let merchants forget it. Says A. T. & T. Assistant Vice President James V. Ryan: "We will soon launch an advertising campaign to persuade more people to shop by phone. The merchants had better get ready to handle the phone calls," i.e., install more, phones...
Although student-led seminars are open to endless cracks about "group dynamics," any device which encourages the student to forget his teacher as a grader is valuable. In courses and on field examinations only three grades will be given: "fail, satisfactory, distinction." There will be no pluses and minuses, no hallowed Rank List...
...increasing; rather the reverse. In fact, all over the country there is much agitation for more independent work on the part of students, partly because this type of education does him (her) the most good and partly because of the need of economy. In this connection, one must not forget that the four-year college in this country has to do some of the work that the secondary schools do in Europe...
...settling crazily into 20 ft. of water a mile short of the runway's green threshold lights. The tug cut loose two barges it was towing, churned towards the twisted wreckage, flashed a call for help to the Coast Guard. Nickerson gave the eight-man crew one order: "Forget the bodies. Haul in the live ones...