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It is probably in the fields of science and business that American patience is most familiar. The folk hero of American tinkerers remains Thomas A. Edison, who prescribed "stick-to-itiveness" as one of the prime requisites for achievement. More sophisticated researchers have kept alive the tradition of the patient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: ON PATIENCE AS AN AMERICAN VIRTUE | 3/25/1966 | See Source »

A major reason for the speedup is that the step-by-step procedure helps a teacher spot precisely what is puzzling a child-and the method frees her "to give such children help without holding up others. It also gives her a chance to cope with one of the most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teaching: Sound Over Sight in Reading | 1/28/1966 | See Source »

Hard as it is to believe, the new plan looks worse. Its only virtue is that it frees the Masters' time. Beyond that, it has substantially eliminated student choice, for very few freshmen are likely to be committed enough to one House to write Dean Monro a letter. Furthermore, as...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen and the Houses | 10/16/1965 | See Source »

GOLD RESERVES. Eliminates the requirement that Federal Reserve banks must back with gold certificates 25% of the commercial bank deposits they hold. The move frees nearly $5 billion in gold to meet international claims on the dollar and stimulates expansion of the money supply. Signed.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE LEGISLATIVE SCORECARD | 8/6/1965 | See Source »

"Ah, women! I love the sex," sighs Macheath the Highwayman. "I must have 'em." But they have him, for when Macheath promises marriage to Polly Peachum, Polly's Parents bribe the gentleman robber's other bawds to turn him in for the reward. Mac's other love, Lucy Lockit, frees...

Author: By Gregory P. Pressman, | Title: The Beggar's Opera | 6/14/1965 | See Source »

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