Word: lessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rain"-courses in "socioeconomic problems, home care of the sick, driver education, safe living, industrial hygiene, community health," all the way down to "personal grooming [and] hospitality." The result of all this, says Smith, is that "while the scope of the school is thus being greatly enlarged, we expect less and less from the student in the way of genuine educational accomplishment...
...mild-seeming man with a crew cut and a boyishly diffident manner, Cadmus had turned to abstract themes. His new show centered around seven two-foot-high panels representing nothing less than the Seven Deadly Sins...
Texas, Li'l Darlin1 (book by John Whedon & Sam Moore; produced by Studio Productions, Inc. & Anthony Brady Farrell Productions) is suitably Texan in size and general good nature. But it is no less Texan in sprawl; it ranges over a lot. of flat country, strikes snags more often than oil, and displays no great sense of direction. Half satiric and half folksy, it is never quite sure whether it is stalking wild life or big shots, finally bags neither...
Methylcellulose, Dr. Bargen found, is a bulking substance which can be taken handily in tablet form. In lukewarm water or in the digestive tract it forms a suspension of "innumerable tiny translucent gelatinous particles 0.5 mm. or less in diameter." It goes through most of the digestive tract unchanged, but loses water and turns to a bulky jelly about the time it reaches the colon. Dr. Bargen checked on its progress at regular intervals-through abdominal openings in patients who had had intestinal operations...
...Britain, the offer kicked up less excitement than such a proposal would make in the U.S. Since 1944 many English and Welsh church schools, Catholic and non-Catholic, have been receiving government financial aid, to keep them up to the standards prescribed by the Ministry of Education in its campaign to improve primary education. In Scotland since 1918, Roman Catholic schools have been sold or leased to the government, and have been operating under a teaching agreement like the new proposal of England's bishops...