Word: interestedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In Toledo last week bullfight officials were faced with that old problem and brought forth a new solution. The fourth bull of the corrida had charged out of the toril, thundered after the first cape it saw, and. then plunged headlong into the protective wall with a shock that quivered...
Clarity & Point. The secret of Sylvia Porter's success is that she writes of complex financial matters in terms that Everyman can understand, shuns the jargon of the financial specialist (which many a businessman-though loath to admit it-does not understand too well himself). She constantly redefines technical...
Lilies & Placenta. But the beauty industry is far more interested in finding new products than rescuing old ones, is moving more and more into research. Revlon has more than 70 chemists on its staff, and about half its current sales are from products introduced since 1950, e.g., high-gloss lipstick...
Occasionally the third and fourth years of a language are given, upon special agreement between a teacher and a few interested students. Although Russian and Portuguese are listed in the city-wide course catalogue, neither is actually offered.
"Academic shell," however, is hardly appropriate when applied even to the most intellectually-minded Horace Mann student. It is very difficult even to form an academic shell when one's academic courses are unstimulating. The fact remains that the really interested student is forced to look to the Debate Club...