Word: high
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME forgets the capital investment required, plus the average eleven-hour work day, plus the high accident rate, plus the many years required to gain the necessary knowledge, plus the risks due to uncontrollable climatic conditions...
...working with many of the largest corporations in the world, I imagined that I knew everything there was to know about condensed intelligence and lucidity. Your people add to my respect for the high level of professional integrity and skill in this country RAYMOND LOEWY New York City
TIME'S statement that John Dewey's progressive education has led to an emphasis on creative thinking in our public schools is suffering from too great a desire to make his birthday happy. His ideas have led to the very opposite. The present American high-school student is an intellectual dolt who thinks that knowledge is gained through memorizing facts...
Fifty-two-year-old John Hynes is more a career civil servant than a politician, but he grew up in Boston's rough & tumble Irish politics. He quit school at 13, in the days when the help-wanted ads said "No Irish Need Apply," got a high-school education and law degree at night schools. He had climbed to the city clerk's job, traveling part of the way as an ally of Curley. When Curley went to jail, City Clerk Hynes became temporary mayor, bitterly offended Curley's City Hall crowd by his efficiency and honesty...
...Guardia Field with his ticket. He fumbled when the airport bus driver asked for the $1.25 fare until a kindly passenger coughed up. There was no problem at the field: he just walked up the gangway with everybody else, settled down in a seat beside the window, soon, high over eastern Pennsylvania, he was chatting with the stewardess and sipping chicken broth...