Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota...
...school men--six of them from the Boston Public Latin School--and six to private school graduates. New York follows with 24 recipients--16 of them from New York City--while Ohio ranks third with 11, Michigan fourth with 4, and Wisconsin fifth with 3. One apiece go to Iowa, Minnesota, New Jersey, North Carolina, Texas, and the District of Columbia...
I.Q.s Can Change. At 32, Stoddard was a full professor and director of Iowa's Child Welfare Research Station, had begun his revolutionary researches into "the meaning of intelligence" (TIME, July 11, 1938). His conclusion: I.Q.s (supposedly fixed at birth) can be altered by environment. Stoddard found that bastard children of feeble-minded mothers, placed in good homes, turned out quite bright; normal youngsters, kept in overcrowded orphanages, "deteriorated...
...became dean of the University of Iowa's graduate school, which outraged academic conservatives by awarding graduate degrees for creative work (novels, symphonies, paintings) as well as for learned theses. A believer in "corridor education" and plenty of relaxation, Stoddard dragged students and faculty, including Artist Wood, off to weekend house parties...
...Perfect. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce elected a new President, Earl Owen Shreve, vice president in charge of General Electric's heavy-industry sales. Iowa-born President Shreve's favorite term of complete approval used to be "640% perfect." Recently he deflated this to "106%." But his first official speech (which did not agree with the views of his boss-see The Economy) warned against similar deflationary tactics in business. Concerted price-cutting, he told the Chamber might bring a new depression...