Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When once asked just how he happened to become the sort of chap he is, 41-year-old John Robert Russell, 13th Duke of Bedford, airily replied: "I wasn't raised to be a gentleman, you know." Of all Britain's cash-strapped peers whom death and taxes have forced to open their estates to the public, none has done so with such tradition-shattering flamboyance as the duke. On the 3,000 acres of Woburn Park, just 40 miles from London, and in the gold-and-damask rooms of Woburn Abbey, things go on these days that...
...first commercials, men in white have peered portentously into living rooms and assured viewers that all manner of products-patent medicines and dentifrices, cosmetics, drugs, and even cigarettes-are exactly what the doctor ordered. "For my patients, I recommend . . ." says one white-smocked huckster. As most viewers know but some do not, a genuine doctor or dentist is highly unlikely to risk his professional standing by engaging in such blatant commercialism. In perennial attacks on the phony pitchmen, the American Medical Association had long complained of these crass abuses. Last year the National Association of Broadcasters ordered that actors could...
...glance tells that many Americans who are classified as Negro have plenty of European "blood"; white people with Negro blood are harder to distinguish. Their African genes may not affect their appearance and they usually do not know that some of their ancestors "passed." In the Ohio Journal of Science, Sociologist Robert P. Stuckert of Ohio State University attempts to estimate how many white Americans have some African ancestry...
...period from nine months plus a year's probation to two years' training and a year's probation. ¶ Revision of criteria for the 600-man teaching staff; in addition to good character, familiarity with the Army and the Bible, teachers will henceforth be required to know how to teach. ¶ New emphasis on spiritual counseling and instruction in Christianity. ¶ Modernization of the Salvationists' "religious language" and increased use of the printed word, radio and television...
...deeper reasons for the slump, as the biggest furniture maker, Kroehler Manufacturing Co. (1957 sales: $90.5 million) learned in a broad market survey released last week. The U.S. housewife, reported Kroehler, believes that her reputation for "good taste" depends greatly on her selection of furniture. But she does not know for certain what "good taste" is, and the furniture industry has done little to help her learn. In choosing furniture, the American woman "must do credit to her husband's taste in 'wife choosing.' She is proving herself in a completely visible way, and she finds...