Word: needing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Very well," said the professor, "but before I may admit you to this privilege, I must determine by examination your need for such an education." And the young man responded as follows to certain questions proposed unto...
...British colonial rulers inaugurated 125 years ago gave them plenty of English-schooled clerks and civil servants-and gave the aspiring Indian the prestige of a post in which he would never again have to do manual labor. But long after it became apparent that India's crying need was not academic intellectuals but builders, engineers, doctors, technicians and social workers, Indian universities have been dishing out classical education along the old British lines...
...George McNeil sounds a note of caution: "Perhaps we need a reactive motive, some restraining influence to compress creative energy antecedent to its spontaneous and meaningful discharge...
Because developing nations have a growing need for all kinds of capital-not just dollars-Ida would make loans and accept payments in soft currencies as well as hard. To get a loan, a borrower would have to ante up some of his own money. Having a stake in Ida, the soft-currency countries would have a real incentive to spend Ida's money with prudence...
Report to Uhlan: "This is the worst book I have ever edited. It is incoherent, illiterate, without sense, reason, or simple understanding . . . This is literally an insane book on the need of men to look to God . . . It should be buried quickly, for the insanity and hysteria and illiteracy make it a menace to Exposition Press...