Word: haziest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps because the co-authors collaborated by mail (Frank Jr. lives in Charleston, S.C., sister Ernestine in Manhasset, N.Y.), their product lacks unity and presents the reader with only the haziest notion about the chronology of the Gilbreth tribe's doings. Though father Gilbreth often sounds (and sounds off) like father Day, Cheaper by the Dozen lacks the literary merits of its wise, well-honed predecessor. Mother Gilbreth's firm character is made clear (she still lives in Montclair, runs her husband's business and was 1948's "Woman of the Year"). But the personalities...
...Navy had not flown far inland. The blank space beyond the South Pole was still the haziest, most mysterious area on anyone's map. It might be a featureless ice plain or it might be ridged with peaks higher than Mt. XRay...
...great majority of the stockholders in many corporations) have only the haziest ideas about the functioning of the board or of the operating officers, and generally even those hazy ideas are strong. The principal duty of the stock-holders . . . is to elect to the board of directors men (who are) intelligent, honest and (who have) a keen sense of their responsibility as trustees for the stock-holders and for the public policy of the company," Swope pointed...
...percent of the 518 wish to give their sons a Harvard education although there was no unanimity on the question of the comparative values of the academic knowledge and the social contacts gained, here. 215 favored the advantages received from studies, although many admitted that they have only the haziest idea of what they studied in four years at college. 63 claimed they got more from social contacts, and 113 decided the advantages were about even. The rest declined to venture an opinion...