Word: giving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other presidents have found that the nation's alumnae could better use a whole re-education in the matter. To Lynn White of Mills, the big obstacle was that women outlive their husbands. Then they give away their money to their husbands' alma maters. "I go around the country advising women to predecease their husbands," says Mills's president. "We'd do better...
Portugal's Dr. Carlos Santos disagreed: "If God does not give a couple children, it means He does not will them to have children. What Bacala proposes is interference with God's will." But a priest-delegate, Father Salvatore Scionti, thought Bacala was too strict. He favored allowing the withdrawal of semen from the testicles by syringe: "Personally, humbly, I submit that this is no masturbation, no pollution...
...more conventional psychologists who say that Salter's cures prove nothing about the soundness of his theory, Salter retorts that the best proof of a theory is how it works in practice. In his own practice, Pavlov's theory has worked well -well enough to give Author Salter great self-confidence...
...oilmen recently sank $194,000 into a 10,500-ft. dry well near Inglewood, Calif. Even those who had made strikes would not necessarily turn them into profits; they still had the problem of operating the well and marketing the oil. As one California oilman put it: "I can give you an oil well which is actually producing a good amount of oil, and bet you'll go broke if you don't know what you're doing. The stars . . . don't know enough about the business...
...20th Century-Fox) is the most ambitious and costly of this season's crop of Negro-problem films-including Home of the Brave and Lost Boundaries. Pinky was finished after its B-budgeted rivals had proved at the box office that the public is interested in movies that give serious treatment to a serious theme, e.g., the sorry plight of the U.S. Negro. Partly because it puts entertainment above soap-boxing, Darryl Zanuck's sleek movie is head & shoulders above its predecessors both as entertainment and propaganda...