Word: needing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old building--which was the birthplace of astronomy at Harvard and has been the home of two Harvard presidents--will fill a "long-felt need," Conant said...
...therefore, to limit the size of the groups to that number. The purpose of the conference groups would be, like that of the papers, stimulation, with discussions revolving around the assigned topics or perhaps around some of the papers themselves. Conference groups, like every other educational device, would need good faculty men to make them successful, and in this case men of a particular stimulating kind. Were the conference group plan instituted, however, there is no reason to doubt that the departments could in time develop able young men for the jobs, as they did when the tutorial program began...
...intention of reducing the national rook population by heavy and indiscriminate slaughter all over the country." But rook-loving M.P.s were not mollified. Said one: "Is the Minister aware that it is inhumane to destroy birds while they are nesting?" Answered the Minister: "I shall need to make further inquiries...
...specialist should find out just where old age has got in its worst licks. The examination should include a search for damaged organs, and a psychological study of the patient's worries and hopes. Then the doctor should recommend "antiaging" devices. For instance, diet: at 60 most men need more protein, calcium, iron than men of 30, but fewer fats and carbohydrates...
...While the road of social criticism must always be lonely," pontificates glib Pundit Max Lerner in the introduction, "it need not be made bitter as Dante's exile." But Veblen-who was as different from Dante as Bernard Shaw is from Pope Pius-was not an easy man to employ or encourage. His conspicuous love of lechery caused him to be fired first from the University of Chicago, then from Leland Stanford. Hired as an economist by the U.S. Food Administration in World War I, he coolly proposed, says Lerner, "to do away with the merchants in the country...