Word: generalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...should be particularly different for men & women: "They have the same functions as citizens, the same functions as members of a community, the same functions as voters and volunteers." When Harvard was reforming its curriculum, Wellesley did the same, tightened course requirements to give freshmen and sophomores a broader general education. After two years, the girls pick their major. If they want, they can take a dose of child psychology and attend lectures on the problems of marriage. But most girls seem to want something more. As Junior Callie Huger puts it: "I want to broaden my mind, not just...
...Margaret Clapp, college students' minds, male or female, are broadened by the same studies. With a good general college course, a girl can go on and do as she pleases-study medicine, swim the English Channel, or take up the housewife's career and serve it well. Woman's place, thinks Margaret Clapp, is anywhere...
...dinners. Last week, as he rose to address 300 newsmen at Washington's National Press Club, Du Pont President Crawford H. Greenewalt got a chance to let the Justice Department have it at close range. Just seven places down the speaker's table sat Assistant Attorney General Herbert Bergson, boss of the Justice Department's antitrust division...
Petrillo threw out that solution. Last week he staged a showdown at the Persian Room of Manhattan's Plaza hotel. There, Pianist Victor Borge, a member of both Petrillo's union and A.G.V.A., has been burlesquing opera-singing and making fun of music in general. Petrillo was not amused. He sent Borge a terse telegram: leave the A.G.V.A., or play without an orchestra. Borge meekly complied. Said he: "It is easier for me to get along without the A.G.V.A. than to do without an orchestra...
Jimmy Stewart reported a steady 800 barrels a day from his No. i well, brought in at 4,180 ft. near Vernal, Utah, last fortnight. Stewart and his partners (among them: Continental Airlines' President Robert Six; Howard Hughes's ubiquitous agent, Johnny Meyer; and General Aniline & Film's Chairman Jack Frye) had risked $75,000 on a tip Meyer got from a geologist who had previously tipped Meyer and Frank Sinatra to another payoff site (Sinatra's "Crooner No. i" well in Wyoming...