Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nettle's little stinger is one of nature's meanest masterpieces. In a recent issue of Britain's Journal of Physiology, Physiologists N. Emmelin and W. Feldberg of Cambridge University explained just how mean a nettle...
...likes to think its educational system as good as any in the world. That doesn't mean that the U.S. is satisfied with it. Recently, educators have been insisting, louder & louder, that it isn't anywhere near good enough. What's wrong with it? Seventeen months ago, Harry Truman appointed a commission of 28 clergymen, educators, businessmen, and editors to find out. Last week the commission, headed by the American Council on Education's President George Zook,* published the first two volumes of a six-volume report...
...very fact that such a book can be published without revealing any real secrets stresses a verbal warning by Dr. Rosebury: "Bacterial warfare can be developed by any nation, large or small, rich or poor, to which the resources of modern bacteriology are available." "Resources," in this case, can mean almost any sort of laboratory...
Daisy Kenyan (20th Century-Fox) will probably strike soap-opera fans as a pretty intriguing and knotty Problem Drama. Will Daisy (Joan Crawford), a well-heeled but struggling commercial artist, pry dashing Dana Andrews loose from his rich, neurotic wife (Ruth Warrick)? Or do Dana's little daughters mean too much to him? Or will Joan marry Henry Fonda, a widower and ex-soldier so little in touch with this world that he even forgets to keep a date with...
...fellow whites didn't fare much better. He was charmed by the Lake George country of New York State, but found it "occupied by a race of boors about as uncouth, mean, and stupid as the hogs they seem chiefly to delight in." He reserved his greatest contempt for Englishmen. Looking down from the cupola of St. Paul's in London: " 'Now,' thought I, 'I have under my eye the greatest collection of blockheads and rascals, the greatest horde of pimps, prostitutes and bullies that the earth can show. . . . Was there ever such a cursed...