Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...member of the faculty asked, "Why must you always emphasize the obvious angle? Don't you know the Harvard student is more interested in the aesthetic values...
...Harvard education. In one Radcliffe house, there is one line for more than 20 girls. Most of the others have something like three incoming lines and one outgoing for about 50 girls. And it's just as bad for the inmates as it is for the callers: they never know how many calls they aren't getting, they have to wait to make a call, and, in a token gesture to keep the lines free, they aren't supposed to talk for more than five minutes. So the girls ought to do something about it themselves. I understand that...
...lesson whenever some member got lost. Oppenheimer was responsible for much of the writing, and many of the ideas, in the resulting 34,000-word Acheson-Lilienthal Report (TIME, April 8, 1946), which called for an international atomic development authority. Says Lilienthal: "Robert is the only authentic genius I know...
I.I.I., whose membership now includes 87 companies, has no way of measuring results. But unions, which resent the N.A.M. type of salesmanship, have yet to criticize I.I.I. And, since I.I.I.'s program got started, President Sampson has noticed that his own employees work harder. Says he: "They know that in a sense it's their business, not only the business of a fat guy in the front office...
...includes an understanding of different people from different places and different income brackets, their backgrounds and their beliefs. However, merely throwing together a wide assortment of men is not enough. Texas has to have a chance to talk to Park Avenue; son of the milliner must really get to know son of the minor. To make this great barter of ideas work has been the big job of the House Plan. After 15 years of the Houses, can we say that they have done this job, and done it well...