Word: goings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Restless Sophisticates. Adelheide's population ranges in age from 9 to 20. To make as homelike an atmosphere as possible, the children are divided into groups of 25 or 30, each known as a "family" and supervised by a trained young man or woman proctor. All go to school from 8 to 12:30 every weekday. Afternoons are spent in games or chores. Meals are as good as the average German fare-two light meals a day and one "big" dinner (such as broth, goulash, sauerkraut, potatoes, plum pudding...
...what local churches do or do not do about the new United Church of Christ is, according to the terms of the merger, up to them. Following good Congregational practice, all must vote individually whether to change names, merge congregations, or just go along as though nothing had happened. The two denominations will definitely become one only on the national level, in their programs for Home Missions, Foreign Missions, Christian Education and Social Action...
Like a Flatworm. Calculating machines have been getting better and more complicated, Professor McCulloch told the engineers, but they have a long way to go before they rival the brain. A big calculator with 10,000 vacuum tubes may be a useful machine, but it has no more "intelligence" than a primitive flatworm with about that number of nerve cells. Lecturer McCulloch frankly admits that he cannot explain, in terms of electrical engineering, the brain's creative powers...
...each one forever changing. A man's nervous system can never take in all the characteristics of a particular fact: it merely "abstracts" certain parts and reacts to those. After abstracting once, a man will abstract again to make a verbal statement about the fact. He can then go on to make statements about statements about statements...
...Carnegie Institute of Technology, thought so. In the last year, reported Chairman of Admissions John M. Daniels, Carnegie's enrollment applications had dropped 40%. Said he: "It is a 'buyer's market from now on, and those colleges which insist on top-ranking students are going to have to go out and compete for them as we did in prewar years . . . The honeymoon is over...