Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...skills, whereas boy's abilities tend toward quantitative aptitudes. This "genuine difference" results from "reinforcement." From earliest childhood, girls are "reinforced" in clear writing and expression; boys, on the other hand, are often directed toward more quantitative problems. This difference also helps to explain the girls' complaints that boys' interest are "profane"; boys tend to go into fields like math, chemistry, or psychology instead of more culturally oriented subjects like Fine Arts or Literature. "In the long run, however, this all works out for the best," Pettigrew concluded. "The girls can bring their more exotic interests into their Westport home...
Despite the interest that her apron holds this time, an optimistic reader leaves Mother Advocate hoping she can put on weight. Slight as a pamphlet, Mother Advocate has only 20 pages, five fewer than the number of editors. She inspires the memory, in the mind of a reader 35 cents poorer, of a line commonly attributed to T.S. Mathews: "You held me on my tippy-tip-toes, but you never kissed...
...used for four decades to collect an unusual group of 14 newspapers and five TV and radio stations. Just a fortnight ago, Newhouse heard that Condé Nast President and Publisher Iva Sergei ("Pat") Voidato-Patcévitch, 58, was willing to sell his option to buy controlling interest in the company, which he got last fall from Britain's Amalgamated Press. Hard hit by recession cutbacks in ads, Condé Nast Publications lost $534,528 last year-although Vogue finished in basic black. But Newhouse was so convinced of Condé Nast's potential that...
...Detroit sniffed the first faint signs of dissatisfaction: a ripple of interest in imported cars. At first Detroit wrote it off as reverse big-car snobbery and the desire to have something different. Where the snobs led, the mobs followed. When foreign imports rose from .8% of the market in 1955 to 8% last year, it became clear that more than snobbery was at work...
Poker at Seven. The son of a German rabbi, Wolff early developed a crank interest in religion and, at seven, was so critical of the tenets of the Jewish faith that his exasperated aunt threw a poker at him. He examined Lutheranism and found it wanting, tried Roman Catholicism but was expelled from a Redemptorist monastery, and finally entered the ministry of the Church of England...