Word: generalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...indefinite allegory and also by his sometimes tedious portrayal of petty details (endless scenes of housework in the ranch kitchen for instance) he makes up for in his absolutely unsurpassed descriptions of the mountains, the storm, the break-up of a strong man under stress, and the general atmosphere of coldness, loneliness and terror...
Twenty leading American educators, including President Conant and General Dwight D. Eisenhower, yesterday stated that Communist Party members "should not be employed as teachers...
...Unlimited has employed some of the techniques of Alcoholics Anonymous. When it hears of someone who has just had an amputation, it sends a member to visit him in the hospital, and offer practical advice; so far as possible the visitor is chosen to match the patient in age, general background and type of operation...
...transportation," said Rickenbacker, "is suffering from too much coddling and wet-nursing. More regulation and paternalism are not the cure. The individual carriers need less artificial support, less shielding from the facts of life, and more exposure to the inexorable economic laws that apply to business in general." Rick, who pinches Eastern's pennies until Lincoln's beard hurts, thought the industry needed to "learn the homely virtues of thrift, economy and efficiency, and that one must work if he expects...
Before the year is out. conversions at Government plants operated by Goodrich, Goodyear, Firestone, U.S. Rubber & General 200,000 tons, one-seventh of the nation's total consumption of rubber of all kinds. At last week's dedication of the Copolymer plant, rubber experts privately predicted that, within ten years, the U.S. would be using cold rubber almost entirely...