Word: maying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What should a student get out of college? Most people think that the liberal arts may be fine for their daughters, but that a son's education should be weighted toward training him "for a particular occupation or profession"-with the liberal arts secondary. One group who are inclined to reverse the order: college graduates themselves. But even with them, the liberal arts have no runaway; 44% of the grads prefer a liberal arts emphasis, 38% are for technical and professional emphasis, and 18% say "it depends" or have no opinion...
Jepsen & Co. were surprised to find no buffalo skulls or horns. Their absence may indicate that Yuma Man felt faint stirrings of art. Perhaps he took the skulls and horns to another place for decorative (or religious) purposes...
...much is known about Yuma Man, for no Yuma skeleton has yet been found. He may or may not have been an ancestor of modern Indians. He made beautiful and characteristic stone weapons, and seems to have lived not long after the glacial period. But no one knows what his clothes or shelters were like. He was certainly no stickler for public sanitation. Jumbled together on 625 square feet of ground were bones of more than 40 buffalo. Among them were fire sites and stone chips flaked off in making new weapons. Apparently Yuma Man, unmindful of smells and flies...
...dependent, economically and emotionally, on her husband that she has to appease her insecurity by identifying herself with one or more soap-opera heroines whose husbands can have no secrets from them . . . [This heroine], swayed, as she is always saying, only by her love for her husband and children . . . may, and usually does, have a succession of men friends who feel a passionate attraction for her, but arouse in her own breast no unvirtuous emotion...
...Beta Gauge, which measures the thickness of a material by spraying it with beta particles (electrons) from a radioactive isotope and gauging their penetration, was first installed last May in Continental Paper Co.'s plant at Ridgefield Park, N.J. It worked so uncannily well that rubber, paper mills and other industries all began clamoring for it. To meet the demand, Tracerlab has tripled its space by moving into a nearby six-story building paid for out of $1,196,000 of new capital raised last spring with a stock issue. It expects to step up gauge production from...