Word: nation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suggest a reprint of this article to be placed in the hands of social science teachers throughout the nation...
Professor Hansen claimed that an outlet must be found for the nation's savings in expansion add new construction to avoid chronic unemployment...
Harvard would not be the nation's premier university were this list not long and impressive. That is to say that the good people of Macon and Fresno would not recognize her as such. One Bruening adds much more to her reputation than fifty conscientious and sympathetic instructors. And speaking quite seriously, it is essential for a university to nurture her reputation in this manner. Public relations are not the least among the worries of a modern college president...
...think. Because pedagogues lack even the means of finding out whether students can think, Professor Tyler and colleagues spent three months thinking up a test of thinking. Last month, having excogitated 290 questions and created perhaps the most elaborate thinking test ever devised, they stunned a group of the nation's smartest high-school graduates with it. The examinees were 1,407 high-standing students, trying for 34 University of Chicago scholarships...
...years a Detroit insurance broker named R. T. Johnstone (neither of whose initials stands for anything) has been pestering Ford Motor Co. to take out a group insurance plan for its employes. Though balding, 37-year-old R. T. Johnstone is one of the nation's largest producers of group insurance, Henry Ford always refused on the ground that group insurance was too paternalistic. Last week, however, Broker Johnstone talked again to Edsel Ford, finally closed a deal for a $150,000,000 plan covering more than 100,000 Ford workers. Said a Ford official: "The men wanted...