Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dissenting paper declared that while the majority report claimed that one-point distinctions were meaningful, it did not indicate why they should be made. This report claimed that ranking requested by draft boards and prospective employees is "quite gross." "A system of ranking in quarters, or decides, should satisfy interested out-of-school persons," Talbot's report said...
Director Neal Gross of the Harvard School-Executive Studies last week described the sort of crossfire the nation's schoolmen are in. Of 500 school board members questioned, 53% said that citizens had demanded they put more emphasis on the 3 Rs, while 43% received demands for other types of courses; 41% received protests over the opinions of certain teachers, while 12% were confronted with demands that teachers be allowed to speak more freely; 69% received complaints about the amount of school taxes, while 51% received demands that the schools get more money...
...advance promotion and timing (Monday night, 10:30 E.S.T.), Album filled fewer than half the 80,000 seats (at $2 to $10 a head) in the participating movie houses from Boston to Los Angeles. In most cities, notably Houston and Atlanta, it caused hardly a ripple of interest. Estimated gross intake: $195,000, barely enough to pay expenses...
Some of the professors invading TV have gone nearly the entire way to pure entertainment. Rutgers' handsomely mustached Dr. Mason Gross plays straight man for Comic Herb Shriner on CBS's Two for the Money, and Northwestern's Bergen Evans stars as moderator on Du Mont's Down You Go. When the show moved this season from Chicago to Manhattan, Evans was fortunately on leave from Northwestern to work on a new book on slang. He will therefore not have to make his choice between teaching and TV until this fall, when his leave expires...
Actually, the danger of overextended credit is more a bogeyman than real. While the overall public and private debt has increased 50% since World War II, the gross U.S. national product has increased even faster-by 68%- and consumers' liquid savings are estimated at $525 billion, considerably more than their debts. Thus, most Government economists feel that the current credit market is merely expanding with the U.S. economy. Moreover, the reason for borrowing has changed. Once people borrowed chiefly because they needed money for necessities. But today consumers with good jobs and good prospects borrow because they feel that...