Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...popular fancy, the huge U.S. corporation is a world apart, operating under mysterious rules and philosophies that are of little concern -or interest - to the housewife or the corner butcher. Businessmen know that this is not so - and perhaps their best proof is the world's largest firm: the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Few corporations in the world are as intimately woven into the life of a nation as A.T.& T. It not only helped the nation grow and prosper, but helped make the telephone a universal instrument that changed the world's mores, entered its drama...
...played over cups of coffee in the Faculty Club. In most cases, however, the game is just for fun, and the brave visions never get beyond the lunch table. It is rare that a systematic study is made and oven rarer when the academic community perks up and shows interest. But the unusual happened last December when four well-known colleges in western Massachusetts--Amherst, Mt. Holyoke, Smith, and the University of Massachusetts--issued The New college Plan. Written by C. L. Barber, Stuart M. Stoke, Donald Sheehan, and Shannon McCune, the report briskly outlines "a major departure in higher...
...cannot remember that Gertrude ever expressed any great interest in art or writing. They were more interested in the economic and history courses. They did not seem to have a large or varied acquaintance, either in Boston or in Cambridge, or in the college. I rather gathered that Mrs. Oppenheimer's house was the only pivate home that they had entrance to. They seemed to have money enough to take care of their needs." Jerome E. Weinstein...
Francis Keppel, Dean of the Graduate School of Education, derided the notion that such a step would ever lead to government administration of tests. "The Federal Government will have more and more interest in education," maintained Keppel...
Maintaining his literary interest, McCord has written poetry for 35 years including "The College Pump," a column of anecdotes and reminiscences for the Harvard Alumni Bulletin of which he was editor for six years. Since 1925, he has served as Executive Secretary of the Harvard Fund Council...