Word: lesson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cosmic cooking course that can fascinate anyone. White's secret is superb preparation: he spends twelve hours every day writing the script, building laboratory props and rehearsing with a 21-man crew. The preparation has to be right; a faulty wire can delay an entire day's lesson...
...success of the Russian moon rocket should teach you Americans a lesson. Concentrate more on science and less on jazz, hula hoops and the almighty dollar...
...week issued a progress report on its all-out attack on phony price cutting. In the three months since FTC started the campaign with a warning to merchants to stop marking up goods in order to make fake price cuts seem to be bargains, 60 companies have learned their lesson the hard way. Box score: 33 complaints, 21 orders to cease and desist, and six consent agreements. Most of the actions (32) were against furriers, long among the most obvious of the price packers, but the campaign also extended to sellers of sewing machines, perfumes, women's hosiery, cutlery...
Author Connell's novel is an expanded version of a short story that appeared in The Anatomy Lesson (TIME, May 27, 1957), but added incident does not necessarily bring greater understanding. When catastrophe breaks into his heroine's hothouse existence, the author flinches nearly as much as she: the event is seen from the outside, and the reader cannot know if Mrs. Bridge feels any more deeply than the cliches she utters. He is a gentler observer than Philip Wylie, but Connell's conclusions about U.S. womanhood may not be too different...
Four games in five nights present a difficult problem to any hockey team. This lesson proved true last night as the Providence College sextet outscrapped and outhustled the tired varsity six for the first two periods and held on in the third period...