Word: mode
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...teacher is no happier about this than the pupil. Denied the opportunity to control via the birch rod, quite at sea as to the mode of operation of the few techniques at her disposal, she spends as little time as possible on drill subjects and eagerly subscribes to philosophies of education which emphasize material of greater inherant interest...
French Trail Blazers. Monet and Renoir nevertheless persisted in following the evidence of their own eyes rather than the accepted (dun-colored) mode of seeing. Though they lost their first battles to a color-blind public, they could not possibly lose the war, since optical truth was on their side. The truth spread slowly. Toward the close of the igth century it was brought across the Atlantic by the best, of the American impressionists...
...increase in the price of a Boston-New York ticket from $7.75 to $8.13, for example, Moulton estimated, would not persuade a substantial number of passengers to change their mode of transportation...
...Jenner's charge of George Marshall being a "front man for traitors was untrue. Yet, in using these words, he was being kind to George Marshall, for the record, fully documented by McCarthy, Jenner and others, shows that it was Marshall, Acheson, Jessup and others of the same mode of thinking who sold China down the river...
...office coffee break, as firmly entrenched in U.S. life as pie a la mode, is a costly and disrupting mid-morning nightmare to many a company from Norwalk, Conn, to Norwalk, Calif. Some employers have simply thrown up their hands-and ducked out of the way of the stampede. But others have set their minds to licking the problem of lost man-hours. In the process they have not only taken the bitterness out of the coffee break, but have helped to spoon up a profitable new business: coffee catering, to bring the coffee in to employees. Says a Kaiser...