Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doesn't, we throw it out." "What they have in Russia is not Communism at all," pontificated Tito. "The great Lenin would turn in his grave ..." Result: the Yugoslav standard of living, though lower than that of any other country in Europe outside the Iron Curtain, is higher than that of any country inside it. His Communism and his cops are not popular, but his defiance of Russia...
...raincoat. His own career as party leader was now in jeopardy. This was the first time since 1931 that Labor had failed to add to its popular vote in an election. "Voting is like the waves on the beach," Attlee philosophized to a TIME correspondent. "They come higher and higher and then there's one that doesn't come as high-but then it is usually followed by one that comes up even higher still." But Clem Attlee's thin voice did not carry conviction. "Differences within our ranks," he said. "That has done...
...wages and hours, "as organized labor would have us believe. Raising the price of prostitution does not make it the equivalent of love. Is our industrial discontent not in fact the expression of a hunger for a work life that has meaning in terms of higher and more enduring spiritual values?" What the modern worker needs, according to Presbyterian Ohmann, is "skyhooks" to lift up his work-"something to believe in ... that will give meaning...
Reischauer himself will be taking a long look at the Far East for the next fourteen months. Under the auspices of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, he will be investigating "higher education in the area of Chinese civilization," as well as political situations in Formosa, Korea, Hong Kong, and Okinawa. "I don't know what the U.S. Government will think about someone out there poking around, but we'll see," he says. With his arms filled with typhoid shots and his smile as friendly as ever, Reischauer will against next year display his unique combination of the professor-statesman...
...damage was done. Says A. A. Potter, engineering dean emeritus of Purdue: "I've talked to high-school counselors no more than three weeks ago, and that BLS report was still in their minds." High-school training is another cause of the shortage. Training in the sciences and higher mathematics should begin no later than the junior year in high school. But in the last 50 years, the proportion of high-school students studying algebra has dropped from 50% to 20%, physics from 20% to 4%. Says University of Illinois Engineering Dean William Everitt: "We can't teach...