Word: modern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have some answers, some constructive ideas about the health care delivery system, the alternative may be pressure to create large numbers of doctors, and the modern version of the nineteenth century diploma mills may reappear," Ebert warned the Association of American Colleges on Saturday night. Ebert blamed the shortage of physicians on "the reluctance of medical schools to increase in size, and the expense of creating new medical schools" since they depend too heavily on funds ticketed for research...
...Money given for research and research training," Ebert said, "is the major source of support for the modern medical school...If a teacher obtains a research grant, he must be given an adequate laboratory which is well equipped. It is not unusual to make an initial investment of $50,000 to $100,000 in a new teacher, all of which is for support of his research...
Wilson Follett, a sometime professor, magazine columnist and critic who undertook to write Modern American Usage in 1958, wanted "to do for the America of 1960 what Fowler had done for the England of 1926," but he died short of his goal five years later. His publishers, stuck with two-thirds of a book, surrendered it to a committee for completion. It was a rash decision, as General Motors' Charles F. Kettering could have told them. "If you want to kill any idea in the world today," he once said, "get a committee working on it." This committee...
...against the need for any guidebooks to good usage, but an airtight case could surely be marshaled against windy ones. William Strunk Jr.'s succinct Elements of Style (71 pages; TIME, July 13, 1959) does not waste time, for example, on the nonexistent difference between although and though; Modern American Usage squanders 750 words on the subject, concludes: "There is not much to be lost by treating the two words as interchangeable and not much to be gained by attempts to differentiate them...
...closing, it may be useful to sudjest that there is a right way to compile a book on language usage and many wrong ways. It is fairly certain that Modern American Usage will not signalize quasi-universal rejection of Fowler...